PLANS to reduce the number of affordable homes on a new development in Thornbury were blasted by angry protesters.
Developer David Wilson Homes wanted to reduce the number of affordable houses on the Park Farm estate from 175 to 91.
This would see the number of affordable homes – properties available below market value in order to help people get on the housing ladder – drop from the 35 per cent agreed when South Gloucestershire Council granted planning permission to just 18.2.
The developer had asked to reduce the number of affordable houses to just 10 per cent, but reached the 18.2 figure after negotiations with the council.
WORK on a new helicopter base in Almondsbury would begin early next year, after plans put forward by the Great Western Air Ambulance Charity were finally given the go-ahead.
The plans had been criticised by residents who had campaigned against the proposal, raising concerns over building on the green belt as well as noise pollution and disturbance caused by night-time flights.
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