More than 150 local residents have objected to plans by the owner of Bristol City to create a new suburb near Ashton Gate Stadium.
And Steve Lansdown and Bristol Sport face a battle to convince council planners and councillors to agree that they should be allowed to build around 500 new homes on the edge of Bristol, in a project called Longmoor Village. The proposal for what would effectively be a giant cul-de-sac of new homes off the access road to the Long Ashton Park and Ride site has been linked by Bristol Sport to another planning application to create a Sporting Quarter, complete with conference centre and basketball arena, hotel, offices and flats next to Ashton Gate Stadium, just a few hundred yards away.
The site is a huge field that was once where bosses at Ashton Gate proposed a new stadium more than ten years ago, which was ditched after a vociferous battle with local residents and environmental campaigners. Instead, Mr Lansdown funded a massive redevelopment of the existing Ashton Gate into a 27,000-capacity stadium, which was completed more than five years ago.
