Project Overview

Cotswold Homes Ltd are a housebuilder local to the area of Chipping Sodbury and Yate in South Gloucestershire. The proposals were to develop 60 homes (including policy compliant affordable homes) and public open space on the edge of Chipping Sodbury, beyond the current settlement boundary line. Part of the site was considered as brownfield land, with the rest in agricultural use.

Our Role

We promoted the site through the local plans process in 2016, before submitting a pre-application later that year, with a planning application following in Autumn 2017. The authority were unable to demonstrate a five-year housing land supply at the time and accordingly the tilted balance was applied. Following successful negotiation through the various technical issues, the application was recommended for approval in January 2018 and subsequently granted permission subject to a legal agreement.