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Public Inquiry into application for 500 houses in Failand

The application has now gone to appeal, based on the failure of North Somerset Council to decide the application in time. An external Planning Inspector will hold a Public Inquiry starting on 9 March 2010 in Long Ashton and lasting for 8 days, then make a recommendation to the Secretary of State.

Members of the public can attend the inquiry from 10am on Tuesday 9 March in the Jubilee Pavilion at the bottom of Keedwell Hill in Long Ashton. You can come and go from the Inquiry as you wish on 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 17 March.

The site notice (opens in new window - notice is on page 3) for the public inquiry is on the gate leading to the big black barn in Weston Road.

Mercury Article - 21 January 2010 (opens in new window)

North Somerset Case File (opens in new window and you may need to scroll down to see content)

Both Long Ashton and Wraxall & Failand Parish Councils voted unanimously to object to the application as did the North Somerset Central Area Committee.

Working Group website (opens in new window)

Ashton Vale application

The Failand application has been made at the same time as the huge application to build 9500 houses in Ashton Vale, presumably with the intention of riding on the back of it. Planning officers will be busy dealing with this huge application.

South West Bristol Urban Extension Planning Application (opens in new window)

Our position should be that if development has to take place it should be in Ashton Vale contiguous with Bristol, not in Failand, but it would be far better to redevelop existing urban areas of Bristol to a high architectural and environmentally friendly standard than allow unsustainable urban sprawl and destruction of Green Belt countryside.

ADSL2+ and FTTC

When will we get faster broadband speeds from ADSL2+ and Fibre to the cabinet (FTTC) in Failand? See the Broadband section for information.

www.failand.org.uk