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Keep Green Urban Spaces Safe From Sudden 'Brownfield' Labelling
Justification:
The Environment Agency has placed much of the Harbourside into the highest flood risk zone, with a "significant and unacceptable risk to life" for residents and users. Further, the Bristol City Council recently passed a cross-party motion to protect all green spaces from destructive development.
For further information:
Bristol Tree Forum
https://bristoltreeforum.org
Keep Baltic Wharf in the Harbourside: Halt All Plans
https://business.facebook.com/KeepBalticWharf/
Save Baltic Wharf Trees
https://www.facebook.com/groups/143302681297168/
Save the M32 Maples
https://www.facebook.com/m32maples/
Brownfield site definition and statutory requirements
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/national-planning-policy-framework/annex-2-glossary#prev-dev-land
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/brownfield-land-registers#the-purpose-of-brownfield-land-registers
Started by: Anita Bennett (Keep Baltic Wharf in the Harbourside, Save Baltic Wharf Trees)
On reaching 3500 signatures a full council debate will be held.
This ePetition ran from 01/11/2021 to 23/12/2021 and has now finished.
5309 people signed this ePetition.
Council response
The petition has secured 6,398 signatures to date.
Democratic Services verified both online and paper petitions confirming 5,306 signatures from Bristol residents.
The petition was debated at Full Council on the 11th January 2022.
Mayor Marvin Rees - Formal response to debate.
Thank you for your petition and contribution to Full Council.
I will not comment on the specific planning application on the Baltic Wharf caravan site at this time. The planning committee will consider all the relevant issues when it makes its decision.
The most sustainable development sites in central Bristol will be previously developed land as described in the National Planning Policy Framework’s definition. When officers and the planning committee consider planning applications, they will of course be aware of the characteristics of each site and will base their recommendations and decisions on the relevant facts having due regard to the 2014 Local Plan and material planning considerations. We continue to work with councillors in developing the revised Local Plan, which will do much more to balance the considerations of the Climate and Ecological emergencies with the need for development.
If we are to tackle Bristol’s housing crisis and population grown, while minimising the carbon price the planet pays for this growth we must prioritise brownfield sites and develop densely to reduce pressure on green field sites. This is why locations such as Temple Island, Castle Park view and the Galleries, Western Harbour are vital development sites. I look forward to you joining us in supporting them in the fact of oppositional politics as they come forward.
Watch the debate here: https://youtu.be/_GgUd3ux6nk?t=2493
A link to the meeting papers can be found here: https://democracy.bristol.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=142&MId=8801