A plan to build hundreds of homes on a green space in South Bristol have been scaled right back after Mayor Marvin Rees announced the site was an important environmental haven.
The Western Slopes - the green hillside between Knowle West and the Hartcliffe Way main road - had been earmarked in 2014 for as many as 440 new homes under plans drawn up by the council and its housebuilding company Goram Homes.
But after a huge campaign by local residents, backed by Avon Wildlife Trust, the Mayor has now announced that a maximum of 70 homes should be built there, on the site of a former school at the top of the hill and the stableyard on Novers Lane.
