Welcome to the Save Warmley and Siston Green Spaces Web Site.  We are working hard to make the Government understand that we do not want any building on our greenbelt.  We want out wildlife saved, our air clean, our kids to be able to enjoy the countryside. We could do with as much support as possible so if you feel as passionately as we do come and join us.

 


This is the view of St Barnabas Church, Warmley from Shortwood Lodge Golf course.
All of the land you can see in the valley in front of you is under threat of development.
 

BELOW ARE THE AIMS OF THE GROUP.


Our Immediate Aims are:

(1) To oppose the removal of the Green Belt status from hundreds of acres of land around Bristol for the development of Urban Extension and to consider how people would like it to be used.

(2) To inform local people of Government and Local Council plans that will affect their lives.

Our Long Term Aims are:

(1) To persuade the Government of the health and well-being gained from green spaces and the agricultural advantages of keeping the Green Belt intact, both for the present and for future generations.

(2) To persuade the Government to adopt a more pro-active role in encouraging the use of empty properties.

(3) To persuade the Government to re-develop brown-field sites, nationally as well as locally, to fulfil the need for affordable housing/housing before considering using Green Belt or green field sites.

(4) To question the Government growth figures and therefore their claim that 3 million homes will be needed by 2026.

(5) To ensure more stringent planning controls to secure both the inner and outer borders of the Green Belt, in order to stop continual speculation by developers and landowners.

(6) To encourage the elected Local Council to support the wishes of the local people in planning matters and not to be over-ruled by the Government. 

 Our Principles and objectives

We believe that the official consultation process was flawed.  Very few people know what was going on until we came along.  With this in mind we did our own consultation and published the results on May 7th 2009 at Kingswood Civic Centre.  Over 300 people were interested enough to come and listen not only to our results but to the many speakers we had.  ( See events page for more details and photos)

We have now linked with lots more groups inthe South West from as far down as Cornwall and reaching up as far as the Midlands. We know that with all groups linking we will get the Government to notice us.

We have also had lots of press coverage and support from our local MP. We were lucky enough to form a working party that is commited to the aims above and who work hard to inform as many people as possible of our plight. We have managed to hand in 15000 petitions to Downing Street, deliver 350 forms to the RSS offices and helped more people to fill in their opposition forms on line. We are growing larger every week with Oldland, Shortwood, Ashton Park, Whitchurch, Long Ashton and Dundry coming on board.

Our campaign will continue until we have completed our aims.

 

 

To view what we and our community have done to further our aims have a look at our Past Events page.

 

 

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