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.

Reminder - Barnhill Quarry (Chipping Sodbury Waitrose) exhibition this week

Just a reminder - don't miss the...

Barnhill Quarry development exhibition (Waitrose supermarket and houses) - Wed 27 Feb and Thurs 28 Feb, 3.00 pm - 7.30 pm in Chipping Sodbury Town Hall. The developers are displaying their latest plans, modified after local people's feedback from the previous exhibition and consultation.

More trolleys, logging at Ridge Woods?

Sue Walker and I (Paul Hulbert) went walking in Ridge Woods Nature Reserve yesterday. We came across yet another stray trolley. Suie is arranging for it to be collected.




More worryingly, we also saw several people (one equipped with ear defenders and hard hat) cutting up a large log with a chainsaw on the pathway and then carting it off to a nearby house:

Note that we didn't see where they got the log from. It's possible that they got it from somewhere legitimate, and just took it up there to cut up. But it looked suspicious...

Trolleys given the cold shoulder

Cllrs Ian Blair and Mike Robbins found themselves with more than they bargained for when they went looking for stray supermarket trolleys. This one behind Cranleigh Court shops, Yate, came complete with a redundant fridge. "I found ten abandoned trolleys in half an hour" said Mike. "There seems to be an amphibious version as well - they seem very fond of the River Frome".