Mary Reid

I'm going to submit the 'Save our Back Gardens' petition to Council next week. So if you haven't signed it yet you can do so here.

The wording is:

Suburban back gardens are currently treated as industrial brownfield sites for planning purposes. As a result developers are purchasing houses and back gardens in the Royal Borough and then submitting plans for housing at much higher densities. Decisions by the local Council to refuse planning permission are often overturned by the Planning Inspector in Bristol.

1. We believe that back gardens are important social and ecological green corridors that should be protected from development.

2. We support the Council's policy of opposing backland developments.

3. We will resist offers from developers to buy our homes and gardens.  

I'm pleased to say that this has attracted cross-party support.