New South Glos office - parking problems ahead?

As the new South Gloucestershire Council office nears completion on the fringes of Yate, there are doubts about whether the car parking will be adequate. Even with optimistic car sharing figures, it is calculated that there will be a need for 594 parking spaces, and they have only supplied 332. This means that a third of the employees will have to change travel plan habits, or find on street parking.

There is a Green Travel Plan which includes a shuttle bus from Emersons Green, but initial ideas for shuttle buses round Yate have suddenly been dropped.

And the offices will stop work at a time that coincides with the evening traffic peak, when Badminton Road is already jammed.

Yate Town Councillors have asked for an urgent meeting with South Glos travel planners to try to avoid this very predictable problem.