Please Write with Your Objections

Bristol Rovers have recently submitted new plans (application number 08/00061/F) for the Memorial Ground, AFTER full planning permission has been granted for the last plans! There are many major changes, but none will benefit residents.

Changes include:

• Height and massing increase in NE & NW corners
• Arched roof trusses and roof planes are higher, making whole building dominate local skyline even more
• Perimeter road is narrower in places making it more likely to cause congestion, pollution and noise
• Many more upper windows now face OUTWARDS, directly overlooking residential properties
• The development has moved CLOSER to Trubshaw Gardens
• The dedicated conference facilities have gone, but the restaurant will be used for the same purpose and will hold even more people, so no benefits to locals.
• Proposed changes to the stadium design reduces sound insulation to the north and south stands.

Many of these excesses had to be removed from the previous application as concessions to get planning permission. With this application the developers seek to reinstate what would not have been permitted last year.

You can view these plans at the Planning Office, and on the Council’s website.

The plans will be put before the Planning Committee on 2 April 2008 so we must keep the pressure on.

If you objected before, PLEASE do so again before Mid Feb but before the end of the month at the latest!


Nothing has changed for the better.

Write to the Planning Office, your councillor and the Evening Post (epletters@bepp.co.uk) NOW!

Kit.Stokes@bristol.gov.uk

Kit Stokes
Planning Office
Bristol City Council
Brunel House
St George's Road
Bristol
BS1 5UY