Help us to protect the Green Space at The Old Golf Course, Bradford-on-Avon
Who are we?
We’re a group looking to protect the local green spaces, re-wilding areas for flora and fauna to flourish. Read on to find out why this space is unsuitable for a housing development.
Actions you can take:
- Order a garden sign to show your support
- Sign the petition to oppose development here
- Find out why this landscape needs to be kept for the community
- Hear what Bradford-on-Avon Town Council says here
Reasons to keep the golf course green:
This move goes against the Bradford Town Council Plan and has no link to any other future plan for traffic, the environment or additional amenities needed such as schools and healthcare.
The only access to the site for vehicles is on narrow residential streets, already congested with parking and unsuitable for heavy plant traffic.
In a Climate Emergency building homes on a green space is a terrible idea. We need to be working on ways to improve, not remove, biodiversity.
Wildflowers, bees, birds and animals thriving there would be displaced or destroyed and should be protected. What right do we have to take their homes?
This space could provide a safe, distanced area to walk in peace, among wild flora and fauna. Something that is now greatly lacking in many towns.
The site was formerly the town tip, and construction there would risk releasing toxic chemicals into the air / into the river and into people’s homes if flooded again.
Helpful Links & Documents
Have your say about the Wiltshire Council housing plan and find out more info here
Wiltshire Council Sifting comments – see section 11 in particular here
See the houses needing to be built and commitments up until 2026 (specifically page 21) here
For more links, previous coverage and other reading material:
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Audio histories of the Old Golf Course and Bradford on Avon
Please click on the links under each interview to read a write-up/ summary of the discussion. If you’d like to participate in our audio history project, please contact us – we’d love to talk to you! BoA: a gentle place, despite its problems Jeff Parsons in conversation with Louise Weissel and Lucy Newmarch Christensen Lorries…
BoA: a gentle place, despite its problems
Based on an interview with Louise Weissel and Lucy Newmarch-Christensen on 25th August 2024. Jeff Parsons was born in 1942, lived in Bradford on Avon from 1970 to 2002. He worked as a surveyor for the urban district council from 1964 to 1974. He describes Bradford on Avon as a ‘gentle’ place, with minimal traffic,…
Lorries ‘ripped up’ St Laurence Road
Local resident Julie Sherman talks about issues arising from the old town tip, working at the rubber factory and passes on memories of unusual bounties at the tip Written by Gillian Livingstone and based on an interview with Julie Sherman, by Louise Weissel Julie Sherman was born on 1 July 1952 and moved to Bradford on Avon in 1971…
Cllr Sarah Gibson – Jan 2021 / Wiltshire Times
“This site is much loved. As Lib Dem councillors, we did a residents’ survey in the summer, and asked about our local green spaces. Unprompted, almost 20 per cent of the 270 respondents mentioned the old golf course as somewhere they wanted to see kept as a green space.”
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