UNHAPPY residents have banded together to criticise council plans to build 140 new homes on Dovercourt Road in Lockleaze, amid concerns that they have not been listened to.
Bristol City Council is proposing to create a new residential development on the site of a parks and highways department storage depot on the street, as part of plans to build 2,000 homes a year in the city. But a group of locals have raised several worries since the development was first proposed more than a year ago, particularly over access points, which they say are unsuitable as they could lead to increased traffic and increased pollution.
Rich Dinham, who lives along the road, told Bristol Live that an alternative access point via Petherbridge Way was rejected by the council, even though it would alleviate their concerns about congestion. The 41-year-old said: "From the start it doesn't feel like we've been listened to we've said (these things) to them before, even at the last meeting we had with them, and they said they'll relook at this, and they'll relook at that, but they've said that in the past and nothing's happened. There's zero trust there, and we're ploughing on trying to do everything we can, and when we get to the end whatever happens we want to know that we've done everything we can.
