The chairman of one of Bristol City Council's planning committees has been slammed by one of the region's biggest developers after he wrote to fire chiefs and police calling on them to investigate alleged links between the developers and a series of fires on the edge of Bristol.
Housebuilder Redrow described the letter from Cllr Richard Eddy to Avon's Chief Fire Officer as 'deeply insulting and false', following an arson attack on farmland on the south western edge of the city.
Fire chiefs and police said they are investigating around six or seven individual fires that were set in one go along hedges and a boundary fence near Yew Tree Farm, right on the border between Bristol and North Somerset, on the edge of Bedminster Down on Sunday.
