Feedback on Barnhill Quarry (Chipping Sodbury Waitrose) exhibition

Hundreds of people attended the developer's exhibition at Chipping Sodbury Town Hall last week. The major change to the site layout is that the Waitrose store has been moved further from the church, which seems sensible. The layout is still pretty notional - there are no detailed deisgns for the store, the car park or anything else. It's mainly about land use.

Broadly there seem to be two opinions. Many people seem to think that it's not a bad design and that Waitrose will fit in well in Sodbury, but people living nearby have serious doubts about the look of the development and issues like shopping traffic and the lorry movements needed to infill the land where the houses will go.

The developers say that they will be setting up a website in the near future. However, in case you missed the exhibition, we were told that copies of the displays will be available to view for a few weeks at Sodbury Town Council's office and the Town Hall.

The Gazette reports the exhibition here.