Loft Boarding & Insulation

add to the congestion on this already very busy rat run. Congested parking on Berkeley Road already poses safety risks, for example obstructing visibility when driving onto the road from a driveway.”

Conservative Cllr Chris Windows added: “It’s a very busy road and there’s an awful lot of parking there. Quite often one vehicle will have to give way for another vehicle coming down. This isn’t the place for overdevelopment. It seems to me it’s a case of ‘let’s shove in as much as we possibly can’. I don’t like this. The road is not conducive to further development because it’s so busy.”

Other concerns include a lack of daylight and fresh air coming into many of the apartments, and overlooking into the recently built flats above Bishopston Library. Thirteen of the 17 apartments would have been ‘single aspect’, meaning they only have windows on one side of the building.

A suggestion from Green Councillor Guy Poultney that the committee should visit the site before voting was rejected by fellow Green Cllr Ani Stafford-Townsend, chair of the committee.

Councillors voted three to two against approving the plans. Voting in favour of the development were Green Cllrs Poultney and Stafford-Townsend. Voting against the plans were Conservative Cllrs Windows and Lesley Alexander and Labour Cllr Katja Hornchen.

By Alex Seabrook, Local Democracy Reporting Service