Plans for new homes will 'not increase traffic'

Planning permission has been approved for 14 new homes which developers say will not lead to a "harmful increase in traffic".

The homes will be built in a field in northern Bristol, on a corner with Hambrook Lane and the Stoke Gifford bypass, and forms part of the new neighbourhood east of Harry Stoke.

Some local residents objected to the development, citing concerns about the extra traffic coming onto the narrow lane, which was described as "particularly hazardous".

But this was dismissed by councillors on a strategic sites delivery committee at South Gloucestershire Council who voted on Thursday to approve the plans.

None of the residents were at the committee to speak to their objections and a planning consultant said the extra number of cars will be minimal.

Details such as the layout of the homes still need to be approved, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.

Stuart Rackham, a planning agent representing the developers, said that "additional movements" onto Hambrook Lane would be equivalent to one additional vehicle every eight and a half minutes.

"This is not considered to be significant or a harmful increase in the number of movements on Hambrook Lane," he said.

"The proposal also delivers a two-metre wide access path on Hambrook Lane, which will provide an improved link for the existing houses and residents in Stoke Gifford to the Metrobus stops on the new Stoke Gifford relief road."

Next to the site is a much larger housing development of 144 new homes, the first phase of the South of the Railway development of 1,290 homes.

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