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22nd February 2008

Major Public Meeting Next Week on 5,000 New Homes for Yate

Residents in the Yate area will have their chance to learn more about plans for 5,000 extra houses for the town at a public meeting next week.

The event has been organised by Northavon MP Steve Webb in partnership with local councillors and will be held at Brimsham Green School at 7.30pm on Friday 29th February.

Residents will be able to hear more about where the numbers have come from, to discuss the effect this scale of development would be likely to have on the area, and to learn how they can best register their views.

Commenting, Steve Webb said:

"Local people are starting to hear about this extra 5,000 houses, but may still have little idea where they might go, where this figure has come from and how residents can register their opposition. This meeting will give people a chance to find out more about the plans and what impact they could have on the town, and about the campaign to get these plans changed.

"Whilst there is a need for more affordable housing for local people, development on this scale would overwhelm our area. We could lose acres of countryside, find our roads completely gridlocked and our public services such as hospitals be overwhelmed. If we do not take a stand now, we will be facing the consequences for decades to come".