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SEG submits its response to the draft Local Plan consultation SPC responds robustly to BaNES Council's draft Local Plan consultation Help with responding to the BaNES Draft Local Plan 2025-2043 Consultation There's enough brownfield for 1.54 million homes! says CPRE BaNES Draft Local Plan 2025-2043 - Consultation opens "Farming is as integral to our national security as energy or defence" BaNES Cabinet approves Draft Local Plan River Avon Charter endorsed by SPC Saltford Fairtrade Coffee Morning - Friday 25th September Draft Local Plan needs urgent rethink! says SEG Huge Green Belt loss for Saltford (and elsewhere) planned by BaNES More news in our news archive >> SEG submits its response to the draft Local Plan consultationOctober 2026
On 12th October, SEG submitted its response to the BaNES Draft Local Plan consultation online portal. In its response SEG stated that it was in full agreement with the detailed response and evidence submitted by Saltford Parish Council (SPC), including that the proposals for Saltford (policy 3.7 for West Saltford and policy 3.8 for South Saltford) are neither legally compliant nor sound. SPC's response is summarised in our previous news story below. In particular, the high housing target that is set by national Government for BaNES Council is not evidence-based or set to meet a local, identified need. Therefore, as no demonstrable unmet need for the developments in Saltford has been shown, no exceptional circumstances can claim to have been demonstrated to justify such a large-scale and disproportionate development of Green Belt land at either West Saltford (policy 3.7), South Saltford (policy 3.8), or both. SEG also agreed in its response with the Parish Council's detailed explanation that BaNES Council is incorrect to re-classify West Saltford (policy 3.7) and South Saltford (policy 3.8) which is undeveloped Green Belt as grey belt. SEG made the point that Government Ministers have consistently stated that the introduction of a grey belt definition was not intended for undeveloped Green Belt land; the Government's planning policy intention is to allow development of previously developed land such as disused petrol stations, abandoned car parks and low value scrubland. Furthermore, the national target set by Government to build 1.5 million houses by 2029 that has led to such high housing targets for LPAs including BaNES Council fails to take account of the availability of brownfield land, unbuilt planning permissions, and empty homes in England. CPRE's latest brownfield survey report (Sept 2026) shows that in 2025 there was enough brownfield land to accommodate a minimum of 1.54 million homes across England, exceeding the government's national housing delivery pledge of 1.5 million. Of the 1.54 million potential brownfield homes in 2025, over 850,000 have planning permission yet remain unbuilt. There are also 303,185 long-term empty homes in England (ONS Data, 2025). SEG made the additional point that in the light of that data, the Government's housing target itself cannot be considered as an exceptional circumstance to justify any loss of Green Belt land to development. The Government as well as LPAs have a shared duty of care to protect farmland, the Green Belt, and other undeveloped green field sites for food production, future food security, nature, and landscape/green space value. As a finite resource, undeveloped land should be much better protected from short term policy making. To increase the housing provision for a rural village like Saltford by a staggering 75% through policy 3.7 (West Saltford) and 3.8 (South Saltford), and by removing such a large swathe of important open landscape in the Green Belt that is highly valued by the resident community, that contributes to the health and well-being of residents and that provides support and habitat for wildlife cannot be justified. Exceptional circumstances have not been given to justify that level of over-development of a rural village that, combined with and exacerbated by the wider Bristol to Bath corridor proposals, would cause major additional transport congestion making Saltford a congestion black spot. After confirming the detail of the Parish Council's response that SEG agreed with, SEG responded to the consultation's request to set out the modification(s) SEG considered necessary to make the Local Plan legally compliant and sound, in respect of any legal compliance or soundness matters it had identified as follows:-
THE DEADLINE TO RESPOND IS 30th OCTOBER SEG urges everyone in Saltford who is concerned about this serious issue to respond to the BaNES draft Local Plan consultation. The plan proposes significant development (1,290 houses, i.e. a 75% growth!) on Saltford's Green Belt and a disproportionate expansion on our village, putting even more pressure on the A4 and nature by removing a large swathe of our local green landscape. See our previous Local Plan news story for SPC's response and how you can respond too - it includes useful links at the end of the news item to help you make your own response. SPC responds robustly to BaNES Council's draft Local Plan consultationOctober 2026
At its monthly meeting on the evening of 6th October, Saltford Parish Council (SPC) resolved its response to the BaNES Council draft Local Plan. SPC's response can be found on the SPC website from this link >> where guidance on how you can make your own response can also be found. There are also useful links at the end of this news item. In its comprehensive response, SPC "focuses on the proposals for 1,290 houses on Saltford's undeveloped Green Belt; a staggering 75% increase in housing for the village". We have reproduced here SPC's summary of the response given at the meeting. The response answers the key questions of whether the draft plan is positively prepared, justified, effective and consistent with national policy. In its response, SPC has concluded that the proposals for Saltford (at South and West Saltford) are neither legally compliant nor sound. The points made by SPC include: Saltford's Green Belt contributes significantly to the National Planning Policy Framework's five purposes for the Green Belt. Strategically, for the Bristol and Bath Green Belt, it helps restrict urban sprawl that would otherwise merge Saltford with Keynsham and hence Bristol with Bath. Exceptional circumstances have not been demonstrated to justify the loss of such a large proportion of Saltford's Green Belt to development to meet the high housing target set by national Government for BaNES Council, a target that is not evidence-based and has not been set to meet a local, identified need. Such a large and disproportionate development of the Green Belt at Saltford conflicts with NPPF requirements of exceptional circumstances, reasonable alternatives, sustainable patterns of development, proportionality, landscape, infrastructure, and Green Belt purposes. SPC maintains that BaNES Council's interpretation of the NPPF to re-classify specific undeveloped Green Belt land proposed for development in Saltford as grey belt is fundamentally flawed. The proposed release of Green Belt land at Saltford needs to be considered in the context of BaNES Council's wider strategy for the further development of the Bristol to Bath Corridor, for which, despite significant transport constraints, substantial housing growth of 8,900 new houses is proposed along a transport corridor whose principal road, the A4, is through Saltford. The A4 at Saltford is already subject to considerable weekday peak-time congestion. The effects on transport for the Bristol to Bath Corridor development proposals including Saltford therefore also need to be assessed cumulatively rather than as individual developments. Where sustainable transport does not provide a realistic alternative for the full range of journeys, significant additional demand will fall on the A4. The proposals will put unsustainable pressure disproportionately on the Saltford community. Many Saltford residents rely on access to the countryside on their doorstep for their health and well-being. The proposals will seriously compromise their quality of life. Rising levels of traffic congestion; education and healthcare capacity; drainage; utilities - these are all important considerations affected by such a large scale of development. The plan fails to firmly embed a 'brownfield first' sequencing strategy using previously developed and under-utilised land, and density optimisation. By failing to exhaustively allocate and prioritize previously developed land before releasing undeveloped Green Belt sites, the plan unnecessarily sacrifices vital green infrastructure. The city of Bath is a major factor for the high housing target set by Government. But, despite also being the main centre of employment, BaNES Council has allocated only 27% of the planned increase in housing by the plan for Bath due to its World Heritage City status, a status that clearly works to the distinct disadvantage of a rural, food producing area like Bath and North East Somerset. As a consequence, the remaining 73% of new development required to meet the Government's target is proposed for North East Somerset, overwhelmingly on Green Belt land. The draft Local Plan is therefore highly unbalanced and not positively prepared. In summary, the Parish Council's response concludes that the development proposals for Saltford in the draft Local Plan are not justified, sound nor sustainable development. Developing significant areas of Saltford's Green Belt would create considerable and disproportionate harm to the local community. The Parish Council seeks a longer-term stewardship approach to land-use planning from the BaNES Local Plan; an approach where the new affordable homes that are needed are built closer to centres of employment, and that protects the countryside, valued landscapes, the health and well-being of residents, nature and food security. FURTHER INFORMATION & LINKS Useful links that contain helpful information to help you make your own response:-
The proposals for developing Saltford's Green Belt are in Chapter 3 of the "Local Plan documents" and are shown as: West Saltford (Policy 3.7)
South Saltford (Policy 3.8)
The link here takes you to Chapter 3 (a pdf document on the BaNES consultation portal) where you can see the proposals for Saltford including maps:
SEG urges residents to have their say and submit a response to BaNES Council via the online consultation portal for each of the Saltford development options (West Saltford, policy 3.7, and South Saltford, policy 3.8) - if you agree with SPC's response by all means include a statement to that effect in your response. BaNES asks for a separate representation for each policy, paragraph or site that you wish to make representations on. SEG takes the view that it is important that when the draft Local Plan is submitted to the Government for examination by a planning inspector in 2027, the inspector will, after seeing the responses the draft Local Plan attracts, be in no doubt of how the community of Saltford feels about the impact on Saltford from such deeply harmful proposals. There is helpful guidance on the SPC website to help you navigate the BaNES consultation to do this. The deadline for submitting your response to BaNES is 5pm Friday 30th October. SEG supports the points made in the SPC response and intends to submit its response as soon as possible. Help with responding to the BaNES Draft Local Plan 2025-2043 ConsultationSeptember 2026
As previously reported by SEG during September, the 6-week consultation on the BaNES Draft Local Plan 2025-2043 published online by BaNES Council on 18th September runs until 30th October and is the final consultation stage held by BaNES on the draft Local Plan before it is submitted to the Government for examination by a planning inspector in 2027. To help residents find out what the proposals are for Saltford, and how they can respond, Saltford Parish Council (SPC) has usefully created an information page on its website with clear explanations and links to the consultation page - and how to find the Saltford proposals once you get there. We link to the SPC page at the end of this short news item. SPC expects to resolve its response to these proposals at its 6th October meeting. This should provide sufficient time for the response to be published by SPC well in advance of the consultation deadline (5pm on 30th October). This will enable residents to see the points made by SPC before they submit their own comments, if they wish to do so. SPC is a statutory consultee, hence its response will be an important factor in representing our village. SEG plans to submit its response soon after the SPC response is submitted and will publish a summary of its response here on our website. SEG summarised the proposals in our news story Huge Green Belt loss for Saltford (and elsewhere) planned by BaNES in early September where we also showed the concept maps for Saltford. USEFUL LINKS
*Note. If you want to see a hard copy of the Draft Local Plan consultation, SEG understands it is available at Saltford Community Library. Please ask a Library Volunteer for access (white ring-binder). There's enough brownfield for 1.54 million homes! says CPRESeptember 2026 In 2025, there was enough brownfield land to accommodate a minimum of 1.54 million homes across England, exceeding the government's national housing delivery pledge of 1.5 million. Over the last 4 years (2022-2025), there has been a steady increase in brownfield sites, area and minimum net dwellings - each year, there is more brownfield land that is left untapped. That was the important finding of CPRE's "State of Brownfield 2026" report. Of the 1.54 million potential brownfield homes in 2025, over 850,000 have planning permission, which is around 56%. This provides yet further proof, along with official ONS data (June 2026) showing that in 2025 there were also 303,185 long-term empty homes in England, that there is no justification whatsoever to build the new homes we need in the Green Belt or on farmland and thereby putting nature and our future food security at greater risk. You can see the report on the CPRE website from this link >> BaNES Draft Local Plan 2025-2043 - Consultation opensSeptember 2026 The "Regulation 19" Public Consultation on the BaNES Draft Local Plan 2025-2043 was published online by BaNES Council on 18th September. The 6-week consultation runs until 30th October. See link at the end of this news story. "Reg 19" or Regulation 19 refers to the relevant section of The Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) (England) Regulations 2012. Regulation 19 representations should focus on whether the plan is legally compliant and sound. This will help ensure comments are relevant to the independent examination of the plan. This represents the final consultation stage before submission for independent examination (by a Government Planning Inspector) in 2027. The feedback BaNES receives will be considered by the council and will form part of the evidence submitted for independent examination by the planning inspector. Those who wish to participate in the hearing session(s), are asked to outline in their response why they consider this to be necessary. The tests of soundness are set out in the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF). Plans are sound if they are:
BaNES state that representations should be submitted through the online consultation portal wherever possible. Alternatively, completed Regulation 19 representation forms may be returned by email or post. Representations should clearly identify the relevant part of the plan, explain why it is considered unsound or not legally compliant, and set out any modifications proposed to address the issue. If you require guidance on completing the online form etc., the BaNES website asks you to contact them on: Tel: 01225 394041 Saltford Parish Council is planning to resolve its response to this consultation at its next monthly meeting on 6th October at 7.15pm in Saltford Hall. When published on the SPC website, SPC's response may help guide residents, businesses and community organisations on the response they wish to make to BaNES Council (before the 30th October deadline). BaNES Council asks on the consultation website that where groups or individuals share a common view on the plan, it would be very helpful if they would make a single representation which represents that view, rather than a large number of separate representations repeating the same points. In such cases the group should indicate how many people it is representing and how the representation has been authorised. This is a complex consultation requiring a robust response from Saltford as it poses a major threat to Saltford's Green Belt with an unsustainable amount of new housing (1,290 i.e. a 75% growth) proposed for Saltford and even more traffic congestion with so much development concentrated on the Bristol to Bath corridor. SEG summarised this in our news story Huge Green Belt loss for Saltford (and elsewhere) planned by BaNES in early September. SEG will publish further news or information here on our news page as it arises. LINK TO THE CONSULTATION Here is the link to the online consultation on the BaNES website where comprehensive information on the whole process can also be found: BaNES Draft Local Plan 2025/2043 consultation >> "Farming is as integral to our national security as energy or defence"During her address to the NFU's Back British Farming Day 2026 reception on 9th September, Environment Secretary Angela Eagle said: "Farming is as integral to our national security as energy or defence". In concluding her speech having reflected on the heatwaves and drought of 2026, an incredibly difficult year for many farmers, she stressed the importance of ensuring "that we can support a good and secure food supply". SEG agrees. Land is a finite resource and it is crucial that undeveloped land is protected from development. BaNES Cabinet approves Draft Local PlanSeptember 2026 On 10th September, BaNES Council's Cabinet approved the Draft Local Plan for public consultation. During the Cabinet's discussion it was evident that members of the Cabinet present were strongly against the position the Government had put BaNES Council in during early 2025 by imposing a doubling of the new housing target for BaNES from 14,000 over 20 years to 27,324 over 18 years. The undermining of the Green Belt around villages by the introduction of a new (and highly questionable) Grey Belt definition will lead to more development of the countryside, away from centres of employment. Local democracy for planning new developments has become progressively undermined by the Government. Changes introduced by the Government to national planning policies are taking decision making away from Local Planning Authorities if they do not comply with creating a Local Plan to the Government's strict timetable and that meet the Government's imposed housing targets. By effect, the Government has given more influence to developers who can appeal to Government or to the regional mayor to overrule the Local Planning Authority if it refuses planning permission for speculative applications. New "call in" powers on major planning applications are being planned by Government for regional mayors, including for developments exceeding 150 homes. If the Council does not approve and submit to Government a draft Local Plan for inspection by 31 December, then it will have to start again with a new Local Plan process in 2027 and a higher target imposed by Government for new housing. Without a 5-year land supply for housing in a Local Plan, that would make it even harder to resist speculative planning applications from developers and therefore the schools, healthcare, transport and community facilities needed to support new developments would not be planned in or sufficiently funded by the developer. In view of those factors, the Cabinet reluctantly voted to support the draft Local Plan and the 6-week public consultation on the draft Local Plan's "soundness". The consultation will be announced in the week commencing 14th September. Information on the public consultation will follow on our website when known. Here is the link to the BaNES Council web page for the Draft Local Plan consultation >> The video recording of the 10th September Cabinet meeting can be viewed on the BaNES Council YouTube channel from this link >> 'Save Our Green Belt' poster River Avon Charter endorsed by SPCSeptember 2026
SEG reported in July that BaNES Council had declared its support for the River Avon Charter and agreed some actions the Council would take as a result of that endorsement. At its monthly meeting on the evening of 8th September, Saltford Parish Council (SPC) endorsed the River Avon Charter too. SPC resolved to endorse the Avon Bioregional Charter, supporting its aims and principles, whilst recognising that responsibility for river management, regulation and enforcement rests with the relevant statutory authorities, landowners and partner organisations. As SEG previously reported, the charter has been drawn up by an organisation called "We Are Avon" and states the following:- Charter of Rights for the Bristol Avon and Bioregion 1. Right to exist, thrive, and evolve naturally
2. Right to flow sustainably
3. Right not to be polluted
4. Right to biodiversity integrity
5. Right to regeneration and restoration
6. Right to cultural and community connection
7. Right to representation and advocacy
SEG hopes the River Avon Charter with its endorsement from BaNES Council in particular, can help enable our community's wish for the river to be cleaner and safer for users, visitors and wildlife. SPC in its work representing the interests of Saltford as a riverside village has demonstrated that it strongly shares that aim too. FURTHER INFORMATION Information about "We Are Avon", a place-based organisation and bioregional movement of river guardians and land stewards, working to regenerate the Avon catchment together, can be found on its website weareavon.com. Saltford Fairtrade Coffee Morning - Friday 25th SeptemberSeptember 2026
Tea, Coffee, Cake & Raffle To help us Celebrate Fairtrade Fortnight, the Saltford Fairtrade Group has organised a Coffee Morning from 11.00am - 13.00pm on Friday 25th September at Saltford Hall in Wedmore Road. Draft Local Plan needs urgent rethink! says SEGSeptember 2026 On 7th September, Saltford Environment Group wrote to the leader of BaNES Council, Cllr Kevin Guy, setting out why the draft Local Plan (2025-2043) will be so damaging to the local area, and why it therefore needs a re-think. The BaNES Cabinet is due to discuss the draft Local Plan on 10th September, before a consultation for six weeks from 14th September to 26th October 2026. The consultation by BaNES will invite representations on whether the Pre-Submission Draft Local Plan is legally compliant and 'sound', having regard to national policy. Here is the text from the letter that was sent to express why SEG has a profound concern regarding the draft Local published on 2nd September:- The proposed concentration of development along the Bristol-to-Bath corridor will cause irreversible economic, environmental, and social harm to our communities - most acutely in Saltford and Keynsham. Describing the Bristol-to-Bath corridor as a growth area with "strong transport links" ignores reality. Peak-time congestion already inflicts severe costs and misery on residents and businesses. In Saltford, frequent gridlocks routinely trap residents in the village, exposing the cumulative effect of over-development and poor spatial planning in the recent past. Furthermore, extensive regional development has proceeded without the addition of new large public parks. This has starved the new developments and surrounding areas of green space, leaving Saltford's riverside completely overwhelmed by visitors on sunny weekends and holidays. That in turn denies local inhabitants access to their own natural environment. If the draft plan as proposed goes ahead, even greater numbers will compete for a rapidly degraded, diminishing natural asset. The River Avon's status as a Site of Nature Conservation Interest (SNCI) will be undermined. While SEG recognises that BaNES Council faces intense pressure from top-down government targets and the risks associated with not complying with that pressure, imposing a massive 75% housing expansion on Saltford is reckless, unsound, and entirely unjustified. Wiping out so much Green Belt and overloading failing infrastructure will be devastating for our local community. Because Bath and North East Somerset is predominantly rural, it is incumbent on the Council to take a principled stand. A stewardship approach to land-use planning that protects the area's rural identity, travel routes, wildlife, and future food production capacity, is needed. That approach is vital for our economy, and for our health and well-being. To permit the loss of undeveloped land that underpins wildlife and future food security would represent an appalling legacy. Current land-use policies fail to account for escalating risks from climate change. The 2026 summer of heatwaves and drought has directly threatened domestic food production and national food security - a vulnerability underscored by Defra's recent warnings regarding supply chain resilience. Rather than sacrificing vital agricultural land, Local Plans should urgently pivot toward building sustainable, affordable homes in centres of employment, like Bristol and Bath, not in the countryside. Official data demonstrates that national housing needs can be met without destroying undeveloped Green Belt, whilst careless use and exploitation of the flawed and much-abused "grey belt" definition is enabling that destruction, including in the BaNES draft Local Plan. It is alarming that we need to protect the countryside, the environment, and national food security, which should collectively be regarded as essential infrastructure, not just from our own government, but from our own Local Planning Authority. SEG does not dispute the need for affordable housing. However, BaNES Council must show bold, collaborative leadership. We urge the Council to join forces with other rural authorities to challenge these unachievable housing targets that are forcing bad choices for locating developments. In the interim, the Council should implement a holding measure: restricting all new allocations to brownfield sites and existing permissions until a sustainable and fair solution is negotiated. We urge you to initiate an immediate rethink of the draft Local Plan before permanent damage is, by default, forced on Saltford and the wider district. FURTHER INFORMATION SEG will publish updates on this important issue, that affects all our futures, here on our website as they emerge. Huge Green Belt loss for Saltford (and elsewhere) planned by BaNESSeptember 2026 On 2nd September, BaNES Council published the draft Local Plan 2025-2043 for its Cabinet meeting to be held on 10th September. If adopted by the Cabinet, the draft Local Plan will then go out for public "Regulation 19 consultation" for six weeks from 14th September to 26th October 2026. That consultation will not be a further options consultation but to invite representations on whether the Pre-Submission Draft Local Plan is legally compliant and 'sound', having regard to national policy. 22,000 new houses during the draft Local Plan period (2025-2043) are identified by the plan to enable BaNES Council to meet the Government's high housing target that in itself is highly dubious when the evidence suggests that the real housing need nationally is for affordable homes near employment. The Draft Local Plan proposes strategic Green Belt releases at Keynsham, Saltford, Whitchurch, Hicks Gate and Peasedown St John. Smaller, non-strategic, releases are proposed at Batheaston, Chew Stoke and Farmborough. The 22,000 new housing provision during the draft Local Plan period (2025-2043) identified by the plan is comprised of:- Bath 5,900 homes
Around 40% of the overall requirement is for affordable housing. The Bath to Bristol corridor includes Saltford and is described by BaNES "as a key growth corridor with strong transport links" (an unrealistic description due to the levels of severe congestion during peak travel times!). Saltford Station is not a proposal within this draft Local Plan which states that it is not required to facilitate development at Saltford. Meeting the proposed housing and employment requirements will necessitate significant loss of land from the Green Belt. Saltford's contribution in the draft Local Plan will all be on Green Belt land (re-classified by BaNES as Grey Belt) and totals 1,290 houses as follows: West Saltford (Policy 3.7)
South Saltford (Policy 3.8)
See the concept maps for West and South Saltford from the draft Local Plan document reproduced at the end of this news item. A new country park, the expansion of Manor Road Community Woodland, and new public open space is intended to mitigate the impact on Saltford of development as well as contributing towards the delivery of a 'Future Parklands Vision'. That barely touches the surface of the significant harm that will be done to Saltford's open rural landscape and natural habitats. With c.1,716 houses in Saltford at present this increase of 1,290 (making a total of c.3,000) represents a dramatic increase of around 75% in the size of this historic rural village that has already grown by 114% since the early 1950s. The additional traffic will simply worsen the existing dire congestion problem on the Bath Road A4 with serious economic, social and environmental impacts. The climate change induced summer of heatwaves and drought we have just experienced in 2026 with serious consequences for food production and food security should be the signal to Government and Local Planning Authorities to think seriously again about where the new affordable houses the nation needs should be built (near employment). It is alarming that we need to protect the countryside, the natural environment and the nation's food security and well-being from our own government. Concept map - West Saltford
Concept map - South Saltford
'Save Our Green Belt' poster Saltford Calendar 2027September 2026
The 2027 edition of the popular Saltford Calendar featuring some wonderful photographs by local photographers is available from Saltford Community Library & Post Office* from 1st September at £8.50 each. As in previous years the calendar has been produced by Saltford Community Association and Saltford Environment Group. All net proceeds will be split between SCA, SEG and the Saltford Community Library and Post Office to help further their work supporting the community. By purchasing your copy or copies (it makes a great gift!) you are helping support the community, including helping to keep the Post Office open, whilst celebrating the village and its rural setting. *Saltford Post Office is open 9am - 1pm & 2pm - 5pm on Monday to Friday. The Shop & Library (but not P.O.) is also open Saturday 9am - 12 noon. Worried about your home heating and energy costs?
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