WITH the news that a housing developer is looking to build 150 homes in Thornbury the town is beginning to look more like a construction site than a town.

It seems ridiculous that a development boundary for the town had been indentified and yet still a developer wants to build there – hoping that South Gloucestershire Council’s need for more homes will win them the day.

If these existing rules and boundaries can just be flouted then surely there’s no point in having them in the first place?

Why would the result of such a bitter debate to bring some kind of limitations to the seemingly never-ending string of housing developments when housing developers just ignore them?

In the past developers have promised, in much the same way as Linden Homes is now, to conduct a thorough leafleting campaign and residents never receiving anything.

Hopefully this time round Linden Homes will be less secretive about their actions and make residents aware of what they’re planning so that residents can have their say on the issue.

Perhaps, this time, planners will recognise that the town is quickly becoming a large housing estate and that at the time that hundreds of new homes are being built the amount of amenities offered in the town has stagnated at best.

Whilst it is important that new homes should and need to be built in South Gloucestershire it is important that any regulations that have been agreed regarding development must be stuck to.