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I didn't find it very easy to track down but there's a map here
http://www.bathnes.gov.uk/sites/default/files/sitedocuments/Planning-and-Building-Control/Planning-Policy/Core-Strategy/ProposedChanges/scspc_consultation_newspaper.pdf
It'll be a sprawling depressingly unimaginatively designed estate of houses that I wouldn't be able to afford, on a greenfield site ever pushing out into the countryside... you do have to wonder who at the council has shares in housing companies. I'm guessing they'll have to keep the dyke as a pretty landscape feature, but only because it's too bumpy to build on presumably. Pff.

(nice to see you back though, Moss)

Rhiannon wrote:
It'll be a sprawling depressingly unimaginatively designed estate of houses that I wouldn't be able to afford, on a greenfield site ever pushing out into the countryside...
Something very wrong is happening in Bath. See "Green belt busted" here
http://heritageaction.wordpress.com/2013/03/09/cheers-and-boos-heritage-protection-traced-green-belt-busted-a-soul-unsold-and-congratulations/

Rhiannon wrote:
I'm guessing they'll have to keep the dyke as a pretty landscape feature, but only because it's too bumpy to build on presumably. Pff.
In the midst of a depressing story, that still made me smile.

http://planningblog.planningresource.co.uk/2013/05/02/7269/

Hi Rhiannon, bit more Bath news on this.....
http://m.thisisbath.co.uk/story.html?aid=18923898

It is all a bit depressing, (especially if you want a reasonably priced house), I always thought that development would take place along the road to Bristol, joining the two cities up. Note that Weston and Lansdown are also in line for development, presumably Foxhill MOD will be developed....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/hands-off-our-land/10062759/Michael-Gove-People-fighting-planning-reforms-are-against-aspiration-family-and-social-mobility.html