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South Gloucestershire planning records show district-wide mix of housing, community and travel changes

A new batch of planning applications, active-travel funding for Yate and Thornbury, and a Chipping Sodbury gig reveal how towns and villages across South Gloucestershire are changing at the same time.

TravelWest reported that more than £4 million from the West of England Mayoral Combined Authority will be spent on walking, wheeling and cycling links in Yate and Thornbury [7].

South Gloucestershire Council planning records include a batch of proposals ranging from community facilities to housing conversions [3][4][5][6]. They list two related applications for a Multi Use Games Area with equipment and paths at the Jubilee Centre in Bradley Stoke [3][4], a change of use from a detached garage to a one-bedroom Airbnb studio in Bradley Stoke [5], and a plan to turn a former children's nursery in Patchway into seven one-bedroom sheltered-housing apartments [6].

In Chipping Sodbury, the records show two applications for a building behind 39 High Street: one to convert an ancillary building into a two-bedroom dwelling with bat boxes and a dormer [9], and another to repair and repoint its natural stone walls [8].

The Gazette Series reported that a Motown tribute act is coming to Chipping Sodbury [2]. The same outlet said pupils across South Gloucestershire were picking up their GCSE results [1].

Sources

  1. Gazette Series: Joyous pictures as South Glos pupils pick up their GCSE results
  2. Gazette Series: Motown tribute show bringing hits of the 60s and 70s to Chipping Sodbury
  3. South Gloucestershire Council planning weekly list: Discharge of condition 4 (LEMP) attached to planning permission P26/00016/F. Installation of a Multi Use Games Area (MUGA) with associated sports equipment, and connecting access paths.
  4. South Gloucestershire Council planning weekly list: Discharge of condition 3 (General Bio diversity Condition) attached to planning permission P26/00016/F. Installation of a Multi Use Games Area (MUGA) with associated sports equipment, and connecting access paths.
  5. South Gloucestershire Council planning weekly list: Change of use of detached garage to a 1no bed studio Air BnB (retrospective).
  6. South Gloucestershire Council planning weekly list: Change of Use from childrens nursery (Class E) to Sheltered Housing (Class C2) to provide 7no. 1 bedroom apartments, as defined in the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1987 (as amended). To include window and door reconfiguration to east and west elevations and new window openings to...
  7. TravelWest — West of England transport news: £4m for safer walking, wheeling and cycling links in Yate and Thornbury
  8. South Gloucestershire Council planning weekly list: Condition 2 (Sample panel of lime mortar) and condition 6 (Large scale details) attached to permission P26/00290/LB. External alterations to repair and repoint natural stone walls with lime based mortar, enlarge existing opening, form a new opening and install 1no dormer on South elevation. New w...
  9. South Gloucestershire Council planning weekly list: Discharge of conditions 3 (Bat boxes) and 4 (External lighting) attached to permission P26/00292/F. Installation of 1no dormer to south elevation and new windows and doors to facilitate the conversion of ancillary building to No. 39 High Street Chipping Sodbury to form 1no two-bedroom dwelling (U...

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