5000 new houses - a question of scale

With the plans for 5000 new houses on the fringes of Yate and maybe Chipping Sodbury or elsewhere, we wondered what this many houses would look like.

Turns out it's about 2/3 the size of Bradley Stoke. Just part of a total of FOUR more Bradley Stokes across South Glos.

Steve Webb described the problems recently in the House of Commons:

"We have a rather poor and expensive bus service, and a train service that is so poor and unreliable that people drive from Yate to the north fringe of Bristol, so the idea that that is the basis for 5,000 more homes seems absolutely incredible.

"What about health care for these people? The local hospital is actually being closed, on the basis of population projections that are out of date. What will happen there?

"What about drainage? Downstream from Yate, we are already getting substantial flooding. Where is the evidence that this number, which really feels as if it has been plucked from the air, will not make things worse?"

Please come to Steve's public meeting at 7.30pm this Friday (29 February) at Brimsham Green School. It's YOUR TOWN. Have YOUR SAY.