Woodlands Garden Community (WGC)
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Woodlands Garden Community (WGC) is a proposed mixed use development that will deliver up to 1,750 homes, extensive parkland and supporting infrastructure in a highly accessible location that lies directly adjacent to Bradley Stoke and the large employment parks of North Bristol.
The development will provide a community core with a primary
Woodlands Garden Community (WGC) is a proposed mixed use development that will deliver up to 1,750 homes, extensive parkland and supporting infrastructure in a highly accessible location that lies directly adjacent to Bradley Stoke and the large employment parks of North Bristol.
The development will provide a community core with a primary school, medical hub, local convenience shops, restaurants/takeaways, nursery and care village all catering for residents' everyday needs.
The scheme aims to be an exemplar development that will provide generous recreation and open space provision and high quality housing that minimises its impact on the environment.
Why?
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There is currently a housing crisis affecting the whole of the UK; this has been acutely felt in Bristol where house prices and rents have been rapidly increasing to unaffordable levels over a period of many years.
South Gloucestershire and Bristol are inextricably linked and their mutual success is based on how the areas work together. B
There is currently a housing crisis affecting the whole of the UK; this has been acutely felt in Bristol where house prices and rents have been rapidly increasing to unaffordable levels over a period of many years.
South Gloucestershire and Bristol are inextricably linked and their mutual success is based on how the areas work together. Bristol is highly constrained in terms of available land for development and the city is doing all it can to reuse brownfield land to deliver housing, including the building of ever taller apartment buildings in the city centre. It is recognised by the Councils that even if all the available brownfield land in Bristol is used to provide housing there would still be a shortfall in housing when compared to the established needs.
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We consider that this issue needs to be addressed now. Ideally this would be agreed via a regional plan for the West of England, but unfortunately many attempts to do this have failed over a 15 year period (The Regional Spatial Strategy, Joint Spatial Plan and Spatial Development Strategy).
Given this excessive delay, and with no reasonab
We consider that this issue needs to be addressed now. Ideally this would be agreed via a regional plan for the West of England, but unfortunately many attempts to do this have failed over a 15 year period (The Regional Spatial Strategy, Joint Spatial Plan and Spatial Development Strategy).
Given this excessive delay, and with no reasonable prospect that a plan will grapple with how the region's housing needs are to be met, we are considering an early planning application for the Woodlands Garden Community project. This is likely to be submitted later this year or early 2024.
Introduction
Woodlands Garden Community (WGC) is put forward by South West Strategic Developments (SWSD) who are an experienced promoter of developments across the UK. SWSD seek to work with local communities to ensure that their development proposals provide as many community benefits as possible. More information about the company can be found here: http://swsd-ltd.co.uk/
WGC seeks to redevelop Woodlands Golf Course into a residential-led, mixed-use development that harnesses the site's highly sustainable location to provide much needed housing, where future residents can easily access the jobs, services and public transport links that lie directly adjacent in the northern fringe of Bristol.
The site's proximity to both the new metro bus network and Bristol Parkway Train Station, as well as the nearby Sustrans cycle network, means that opportunities to travel by means other than the private car can be maximised.
This public consultation seeks to present the proposals to the wider community and asks how people might want the plans to evolve. Specific questions that will help us refine the proposals are set out in the 'Get Involved' section of this website.