Expected Planning Application for Large Development to Expand Failand Eastwards

 The Clevedon Mercury Newspaper published an article by reporter Richard Bache on Thursday 4 December that now appears on their website under the heading “Failand Green Belt under threat” and starting:

“Developers want to more than double the size of a rural North Somerset village by building 500 homes. Details of plans by Cheshire developer FLP, a subsidiary of the Gladman Group, to concrete over 22 hectares of green belt emerged this week. If the proposals, which are at an early stage, come to fruition, most of the fields between the existing boundary of the village and Long Ashton Golf Club could be built on. The firm wants to build 500 houses, a local centre, a care home, public open space and a primary school. It would dwarf the existing village, which consists of about 300 homes.”

The full article can be read, with an aerial view of the proposed development site here .

No formal planning application has yet been submitted but North Somerset Council have been requested formally, in (a letter) here  to state whether an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is required to be submitted for proposed development of the site that is identified in the following map on the North Somerset Planning Website here. 

Comments relating specifically to this request concerning the need for an EIA can be submitted to North Somerset Planners at their website here.   If you wish to comment, please note the advice given by North Somerset here  and note that some comments might be more relevant once a planning application has been submitted and made available for scrutiny.

Background information about Environmental Impact Assessment is available here: (“Introducing Environmental Impact Assessment”).