A ‘new North Somerset community’ will include three new schools
A birds eye view looking at Bristol from the south. The A370 Long Ashton bypass is to the left, heading up into Bristol, with Woodspring Golf Club and then the A38 road from Bristol Airport, and the South Bristol Link Road. Taylor Wimpey has plans for almost 3,000 new homes on the golf club land, and on the other side of the A38 between Yanley and Withywood in Bristol(Image: Google Earth)
Plans for what will effectively be a new town built on the south western edge of Bristol are going on show next week, ahead of developers starting the process of getting planning permission.
Taylor Wimpey says it wants permission to build a ‘new North Somerset community’ right on the edge of Bristol, with almost 3,000 new homes built either side of the A38 road to Bristol Airport on the edge of the city.
Just over half the land being earmarked for development is currently the Woodspring Golf Club, with the other half on the south east side of the A38 between that main road, the South Bristol Link Road and the Bristol suburb of Highridge and Withywood.
Taylor Wimpey will reveal plans for up to 2,950 new homes, two primary schools and a new secondary school, a ‘local centre with shops, services, community and health space and employment opportunities’, and a ‘network of nature parks, green corridors and open spaces’.
The development would cover 165 hectares in total, and also include land to the south of Yew Tree Farm, on the Bristol side of the A4174 South Bristol Link Road, as well as fields at the back of the homes in the existing village of Yanley, on the A38.
Taylor Wimpey has been proposing developing the Woodspring Golf Club for many years, submitting it for consideration in a series of Local Plan drafts in North Somerset. But the scale of the ‘new North Somerset community’ – with the land between Yanley and Bristol included too, will surprise locals from Long Ashton to Withywood.
The red line indicates the site of a new communtiy of up to 2,950 new homes in North Somerset, being proposed by developers Taylor Wimpey.
The red line covers what is currently Woodspring Golf Club to the north of the A38, extends as far north as the A370 Long Ashton Bypass, and also includes fields to the south east of the A38, alongside the South Bristol Link Road and the edge of Highridge and Withywood in Bristol(Image: Taylor Wimpey)
The housebuilder said 80 hectares of the site within their red line of development would be kept as green open spaces, and the development would also include ‘safe walking, cycling and public transport routes, including strong connections to Bristol and surrounding communities’.
The plan will be decided not at City Hall in Bristol, but by councillors at North Somerset Council in Weston-super-Mare, and it could well get the support of metro mayor Helen Godwin.
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Although she has no say in planning applications for housing developments, a large-scale development on the route between Bristol and Bristol Airport could well boost her plan for a rapid transit project connecting the two.
Taylor Wimpey are unveiling the details of their plans for the first time at a drop-in consultation event at Woodspring Golf Club on Tuesday next week, June 2, between 2.30pm and 7.30pm, with members of the development team there to answer questions and talk through the plans.
On the same day, a website outlining the plans will go live too, and that will include an online feedback form, with the developers promising to carefully review all comments to ‘help refine the final plans’.
“We are pleased to be bringing forward our plans for a high-quality, well-connected and sustainable neighbourhood in North Somerset,” a spokesperson for Taylor Wimpey said.
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“We are committed to working collaboratively with local residents and this consultation is an important opportunity for local people to tell us what matters most to them.
“Whether that’s the types of homes provided, the design of public spaces, or the facilities needed to support both new and existing residents, your feedback will help us to further shape the plans, so please get involved and tell us what you think,” he added.
