revives over development concerns

Nature Group said: "Representatives from the Frampton Cotterell Nature group expressed their concerns about the potential impact of development on local nature."

He said the area where the dormouse boxes have been put up is a "key site for local wildlife".

speculative planning applications and are also appealing for people to help with leaflet design and delivery, social media and managing email accounts.

The group is holding a public meeting on Wednesday May 10 at 7.30pm, in the skittle alley at the Miners Club on Badminton Road.

at Crossbow House in March, attended by representatives of community groups, councillors and other residents.

Recent planning appeal decisions which have questioned town and village "settlement boundaries" and the district's five-year supply of housing land have added to the group's concerns.

Frampton Cotterell Parish Councillor Dave Hockey, who has been campaigning on protecting the Green Belt for decades, said: "Here we go again!

"We want to be ready for any new threats to our Green Belt and green spaces. We know developers have put forward lots of the land around our villages as potential sites for development."

Dave and wife Pat led a successful ‘Keep the Frome Valley Green’ campaign in the early 1990s which resulted in fields between Winterbourne and Frampton Cotterell being returned to the Green Belt.

David

Hanks of Frampton

VALID says the area is "ecologically rich" and home to species including kingfishers and otters, and developers have to show a planning application will produce a "biodiversity net gain".

The group has produced a leaflet and poster to raise awareness of the issues, which will be distributed around Frome Valley villages, which they have paid to have printed in this edition of the Voice.

They are calling on people to display the poster in their windows.

There are also plans to set up a formal VALID committee to deal with any potential

Anyone who wants to get involved can contact the group at validcampaign@gmail.com or via its Facebook page.

South Gloucestershire’s guidance on “its “call for sites” says: "The inclusion of a site on the call for sites map does not mean the site will be allocated or provide any indication of the outcome of any assessment process through the Local Plan or any subsequent planning application.

"The sites will be assessed to determine which sites have potential to be allocated through the Local Plan."

See pages 16&17