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Ecotricity Football Stadium and Industrial Park


A planning application has been promised this month by Ecotricity for their proposed development on land at the rear of Chipmans Platt and Westend running up to the motorway. This ambitious timetable seems highly unlikely to be achieved. An application well into the New Year seems much more likely. A substantial transport assessment has just been commenced with rather strange timing as it is very late in the process and no application should have gone forward without this work having being undertaken. This proposal makes little sense at this stage as major developments on the A419 create very significant traffic flow problems particularly in peak hours. The A419 is an artery and gateway to Stroud and beyond, and it is very disappointing that this traffic analysis has attracted so little attention from SDC, especially with the WoS development in the plan. Should the Ecotricity proposals proceed as well, Stroud Town will struggle to be a retail success story even more than it does today.


What Else?


I have been expressing concerns for some considerable time that the Parish is under threat. WoS is perhaps the largest but the Ecotricity plans are not far behind. However, in addition we have an application running for housing at Claypits, also an application is back for 36 houses opposite the entrance to the Owen Harris Memorial Ground, an application for a small industrial site in Churchend and also for six houses in Nupend. The potential impact on our parish and beyond is significant.

Each one of these on their own may, or may not, be significant; collectively they will impact profoundly on every part of the parish particularly with hugely increased traffic.


Daniel James


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No. 153  Oct Nov 2015