A wildlife-rich meadow in South Bristol will have 260 new homes built on it after a Government planning inspector overturned a decision at City Hall to stop the development.
Planning inspector Owen Woodwards said the need for new homes in Bristol ‘significantly outweighed’ the loss of habitats and trees and hedgerows at Brislington Meadows, and because the land was still officially listed by the council as a place to build new homes, he has given it planning permission.
Mayor Marvin Rees said he was ‘deeply disappointed’ by the decision and said the plans are ‘at odds with my administration’s efforts to save the site from my predecessor’s 2014 Local Plan’.
