Residents fear flood risk will increase in Severnside due to new warehouses planned on the site of an old pharmaceutical factory. Huge warehouses have now been granted planning permission by South Gloucestershire Council despite warnings of a higher chance of floods.
The warehouses will be built on the 41-hectare site of the old Avlon Works, which was used by Imperial Chemical Industries and then later Avara Pharmaceuticals. The former buildings were recently demolished and the site has been left vacant.
While locals welcomed the new jobs that could come with the planned warehouses, they told the council’s strategic sites delivery committee on Thursday (March 2) that a plan to raise the height of the land could lead to flood water getting displaced.
