Plans to build office blocks on green belt land in Brislington have been criticised by two local councillors. Developers have announced a bid to build a three-storey office block, as well as 70 to 80 two-storey units which could be used for light industrial use or as offices, on the former Wyevale Garden Centre site on the A4 Bath Road.
The land is in the green belt, but Stokes Morgan Planning, which is acting as planning agent of behalf of developers Litt Holdings, argues that the council's 2019 draft local plan identifies the area as somewhere that will be removed from the green belt so that a new neighbourhood can be built there. No local plan has currently been decided on by Bristol City Council.
And local councillors Jos Clark and Andrew Varney, who represent the Brislington West ward, say they are in favour of developing on brownfield sites first before developing on the green belt.
