Plans for 2,675-home development near A38 in South Gloucestershire approved for second time

Plans for a 2,675-home development on the former site of Filton Airfield have been approved.The site, which would also include a wealth of employment land and infrastructure, including three schools, a rail station, doctors surgery, supermarket and care home, was put before South Gloucestershire Council’s development control committee, with the majority voting in support of the plans, with only one objecting and one abstention.The proposals, which were put forward by developers YTL Developments UK Ltd, were originally given planning permission in 2015, but with some changes being made to the outline plans, the revised plans returned to the committee, who met this morning at Turnberrie’s Community Centre in Thornbury.Speaking in support of the plans, the application’s agent Simon Fitton said that a great deal of work had taken place over the past two years between YTL, local stakeholders and officers at South Gloucestershire Council, of which he said was “a great emphasis on the heritage” of the site.