DEVELOPERS who want to build up to 100 homes on a Green Belt site in Pucklechurch have set up a website and invited residents to make comments.
IM Land wants to build at Marsh Farm, a field at the corner of Feltham Road and Abson Road.
The developer says it will make an outline planning application “to establish the principle of residential development”.
The site has seen previous planning applications rejected and is not in South Gloucestershire Council’s draft Local Plan, the blueprint for development over the next 16 years.
On its website IM Land says: “The site is in a sustainable location. The Post Office, Pucklechurch Community Centre, Cricket Club, Castle Road Play Area and Pucklechurch Primary School are all within a 10-minute walk. Local buses run regularly to locations including Yate, Stroud, Old Sodbury and Bath, with bus stops a few minutes’ walk from the site on Abson Road and Oaktree Avenue.”
It says Marsh Farm is closer to the centre of the village than a neighbouring site in the Local Plan on Abson Road, where 60 homes are proposed.
The website says 50 per cent of the homes would be “affordable housing” for social rent or shared ownership and there would be a “village green area”, play area, drainage pond, landscaping and ecological enhancements.
People are being invited to make comments at www.marshfarmpucklechurch.co.uk until September 5, with a “drop-in event” scheduled for August 29 between 3.30pm and 7.30pm at Pucklechurch Community Centre.
Comments can also be sent to Stantec, 10th Floor, Bank House, 8 Cherry Street, Birmingham, B2 5AL.
Meanwhile developer Top to Bottom Ltd has submitted new plans to South Gloucestershire Council to build up to nine homes on a field next to the Ring Road Path near Lyde Green.
It is the third attempt to build homes at the Rosary, close to the David Lloyd fitness centre, with the last being made five years ago.
In a statement supporting the plans, agents Stokes Morgan say improvements to local footpaths and cycleways mean the site “now enjoys a high degree of practical accessibility to local facilities”.
They say the plan now complies with the Council’s planning policies.
However, a resident who has objected to the plans says the access road via Cattybrook Road “struggles to cope with the present traffic”.
The plans can be viewed on the council’s planning website by searching for application P25/01931/PIP.