Great work!! very much supported.

The amount of green space in Bristol is risible. The amount in areas such as Easton, Laurence Hill, is terrible and corrosive for those growing up there. Councils across the land refuse planning permission for people to build on green sites. What planet are they living on that makes them think residents, who already cope with a dirty, smoggy city, can cope with any less carbon reduction, as happens thanks to trees and plants? Living in cities reduces the human lifespan. This is the era for pro-nature, pro-health and pro- green space thinking. No one wants increased asthma among kids, and heart failures among the old! (a recent report put the amount of heart attacks due to car pollution at 6%). The council needs to bother less glossy brochures with their ulterior motives of non-consultation, and needs to protect, boost and grow more green spaces for the children, people, wildlife and our futures, not the developers' pockets!

In the 20 years that I have lived in Bristol Green spaces for children to play have been eroded. Walks into town or to the park are much harder.
the council needs to give consideration to the future - how children learn about nature, the safety for people to be able to walk and for it to be a pleasant experience. Selling Green spaces brings in revenue in the short term but Green spaces can not be reclaimed. For disabled people green spaces need to be close so there is no advantage in having a super park if it can not be accessed without a lift being provided.

PLEASE keep our green spaces. The quality of life of everyone will be affected forever if we lose them. And we don't want "improvements" to parks, we want natural areas. Bristol is becoming a place I no longer want to live in - please don't give me another reason to leave.

Why not develop brownfield sites (eg. Avonmouth, Filton, Feeder)and get the boarded up Local Authority and Housing Association properties back into use before considering building on green spaces.

There are many empty houses in the streets surrounding me in Sea Mills, (some belonging to the council) which are a blight on the community, encouraging vandalism, anti social behaviour and stopping local people from having a pride in their surroundings and area. Surely the first option should be to find out who these houses belong to and reclaim/use them before ruining the open spaces people and nature need. Sea Mills was an award winning estate when it was built as homes for returning heroes from the first world war, with work on the existing buildings or sympathetic reconstruction on the plots there could be many more homes provided without spoiling the scale and balance of what was a very well designed area. (Do it in an eco-friendly way and we could be award winning again!) There are corridors and safe areas here for our beleagured wildlife, open spaces are needed for kids and families to let off steam/learn sports without having to smash windows. We have tennis courts which are used by locals and others, (coaching/sports for all?) and a street where children can play out safely on the grass. (Hopefully for the moment the tennis courts are safe, but could be utilised more by the council for coaching etc) If we lose these open areas we will lose our community. This area was designed with enough space for people to live and also have allotments/gardens to be self sufficient. Just when this seems to be the way we should go the council is threatening to destroy our community and stack us high in a completely unsustainable short-sighted policy which will be paid for by the alienation of residents and the resulting anti social behaviour we suffer from elsewhere. Use the brown sites, not the green, the city needs its lungs.

To lose existing green space in Bristol will be nothing short of vandalism. Bristol Council should be proud of all the green space in Bristol and make sure that it is ALL kept as green space.

People in Lockleaze live here because we likeit the way it is. What gives you the right to waltz in, change in and make life hell ??? We live here because we like it the way it is !

They don't make land anymore. If we sell it, it's gone forever, along with all the wildlife that inhabit it. Green spaces are the lungs of the city and I don't see how selling it off and building new housing fits in anywhere with the critera for Bristol being a sustainable city.

this tyoe of creeping in-fill just adds more and more to local infrastructure and then services such as schools. It is solely for commercial gain by the Council and must be stopped

Many of these spaces are important wild-life corridors, eg along the banks of the Trym through Southmead and Henbury, or are important for birds and small mammals eg the green spaces at the top of Pen Park/near Charlton Road.

Others such as Wellington Hill playing fields have been historic open spaces since medieval times and may have been the original village green. While the land around Downend Park Farm, which was the last working farn within North Bristol and as old as Stoke Park, has been open farmland since at least 1600 and building on it would destroy views of the house and remnants of the now lost hamlet of Downend.

I fully support the campaign against removing the green spaces in NW Bristol. First consideration should be given to utilising empty housing, and sites previously occupied by petrol stations that are falling into disrepair, and other vacant sites. I also oppose the proposal for a travellers' site in Southmead, as this is most definitely the wrong area in which to place this, and there is currently alternative accommodation available which is underused.

I am vehemently opposed to these proposals, as is everyone I have spoken to on the matter - particularly in relation to Downend Park Farm and Muller Road Rec. If the council goes ahead and builds on the green spaces, it will make a mockery of the consultation process - our community doesn't want these developments and we are telling the council as much!

The council should have to convince the residents that changes are necessary - it shouldn't be up to the residents to prove to the council that they're not.

I often say to other people how lucky we are in Bristol to have such wonderful places to walk our dogs. Don't spoil it, Green Spaces are so important in this day and age to get away from the rat race of today.

The Council have not carriedout any consultation before publishing this policy

The community dont want this, back off Bristol council. There are still hundreds of empty flats in the centre, and countless brown field sites that should be occupied (but that would be common sense wouldnt it!)

There is already significant high density development taking place in the area, and inevitably car usage will be higher with the increase in population, causing more air and noise pollution. We must also remember there is a significant proportion of houses converted to bedsits (students, etc.)in North Bristol again adding to the already high population density. We know asthma and other respiratory diseases can be caused by traffic pollution. Under these circumstances every single area of green space (our green lungs) is needed to provide some amenity away from the noisy and polluted roads.

The proposals will not only remove local people's visual amenity but will directly result in more traffic, poorer air quality and increased respiratory disease. Horfield is already the densest populated ward in Bristol. We need our 'green lungs'

Green Open Spaces are essential for recreation, wildlife and the environment.

brown field sites should be used first,henbury and brentry have some beautiful open spaces.

I use purdown (lockleaze open spaces) every day to walk my dog along many others including professional dog walkers, families and runners. The space is very much used.

Please do not build on Downend Park Farm or Muller Road Recreation Ground. It is a beautiful green open space that should be enjoyed by everyone for leisure activites.

I strongly oppose to any disposal of the horfield commonand wellington hill playing field. This is enjoyed by myself and family for many years.

I am strongly opposed to any building on muller rd rec , an area my family and I enjoy using.

I am particularly against any development on the Muller Rd Rec. & Downend Park Farm sites

i do not want the green space developed on

I live in Horfield, and twice a day I take my 18 month old son and my dog walking to the following places: Horfield Recreation ground, Dovercourt Rd green space and Horfield Common.

These daily walks enrich our lives no end. We meet our neighbours and get valuable exercise. My son, Archie chases the dog around, throws sticks and watches other people running, playing, flying kites and sometimes we take a picnic. The opportunity that these spaces afford us has massive social value.

I urge you to stop the building on our precious green spaces and look, perhaps to all the derelict buildings that there are around the city- Stokes Croft, St Pauls area etc. please build there and leave our beloved greens alone. With thanks,

Miss Sara Archer

we need all the open space it is used every day by many people building more houses in an already overcrounded area is not a good idea once the green space is developed you cant replace it the roads are to busy now in lockleaze and the stadium traffic is causing more trouble than the council would like to admit too maybe we could use the space on college green to redevelop thats not used much is it

we need this open space to maintain communaty projects and we all need to feel like we are not living in a concrete jungle it is bad enough with the stadium in horfield dont take our fields and open space as well

I cannot believe this is happening, shame on Bristol City Council

We NEED our green spaces

With the Government encouraging healthier lifestyles, why is Bristol City Council taking away our green spaces. It is well known that exercising in the open air gives a sense of wellbeing. Children need to run free in a safe environment. We have enough urbanisation. Bristol is known as a green city, but won't be for long if the Council has its way.

Keeping our green spaces is important as they provide a sense of place for comunities as well as the amenity value, enabling joint activities.

I would like to see Stoke Lodge Parkland included in this debate. It has been an unofficial 'park' utilised by city-wide residents for more than sixty years; it is our ONLY 'green space' in Stoke Bishop and is now under threat. We had a verbal promise at last nights NP meeting from Cllr. Clare Campion-Smith that this Parkland will remain open to the public but it was not given in good grace, which means the battle is far from over.

When the idea was agreed it was to sell off low value pieces of land this is not the reality

We want to keep the green feilds we have left for our children and our childrens children

why has the council got to build on every bit of green space there is

we dont want gyspsys or any new houses built on our green field sites

Keep the green spaces! Vital to the environment and the whole community.

We wouldn't need the much 'needed housing' being built on our open spaces if the Government past, present and future listened and took note of how the majority of people feel.

it would appear that the council is pushing forward housing plans without due consideration to the infrastructure required to support such developments.The loss of our green spaces and lack of focus on sustainable development will lead to an increase in social deprivation in these areas.

We have an unused space in the 'Bristol & West' sports field because of attempts to change its use. It's so sad to see this old sports ground not being used by sports people.

So long as The Free School (Station Road), The Robin Cousins Sports Centre, The (old) Shirehampton Swimming Bathes, The Lamplighters Public House stand both derelict and in a state of disrepair (in the case of the Bathes they were pulled down) there should be no applications considered for the building on 'Green' locations.
When there are no vacant/derelict lots left, then, and only then, should applications to build/develop be submitted for even so much as consideration by Bristol City Council.

Disgusted by this proposal.

This is a short-sighted proposal by Bristol City Council which has the potential to cause long-term damage to local communities by taking away vital green spaces.

Before any development takes place,there must be firm job opportunities. what is the point of providing housing, gobbling up green spaces which are known to be therapeutic and necessary for good mental health when the occupants have no hope of finding employment. Use empty housing first, there are almost a million in the UK. In-migration to the south West must be discouraged and Northern areas crying out for development with streets of empty houses must be given incentives to build and improve homes.

i am disgusted by these proposals, bristol will become a worse place to live for sure if they go ahead ! there are plenty of ways to build affordable housing and no line your own pockets in the process, eco housing with straw bale and cob construction is cheap and effective and can be built by communities themselves helping to create bonds and better social structure!

We are whole heartedly against losing the green area in Southmead.
Why spend more money to make a site for travellers when there is already an unused site in Lawrence Weston.
The council are not thinking about the people that live in the area and where this money could be put to better use.

We value Downend Park farm and the Muller Road Recreational ground and feel development on this green space is totally inappropiate.

This policy is fundementally floored, short term sell offs do not fund sustainable parks for the future. Particular valued areas such as Downend park farm and muller road rec, which are inappropriate for development anyway.

Okebourne green space is at the very heart of brentry.
we all know what happens when your heart is removed, and that, is what will happen to the current brentry community if the proposed area of okebourne parkland is sold off and decimated by the building of 49 houseing units on its land.the cost to the community will be in terms of noise, pollution and envioromental damage. can you imagine the extra 100 plus cars traveling in and out of the current green field site??
in essence there would be a mini housing estate created, where once wonderful views, tranquility,wildlife and recreational facilities, for all age groups,existed.this would be an abuse of our community and our well being.this errosion of our community should be stopped now for everyones peace of mind and for the benifit of future generations to come.

Okebourne Park is our community park! The roads in Brentry are already too congested, and the local school can’t cope now with its population, out of 50 who applied only 30 places were available, if the council need to build, let it be in the more affluent parts of the city where the well off can afford to travel by bus or car to the downs (a vast open space) .
What about areas like Henleaze/Stoke Bishop or even Clifton prime sites will raise more money for council and developers. Win Win! Oh but too many well off councillors live in these areas WE HAVE Leader of Lib Barbara Janke Clifton, Deputy Lead Lib Simon Cook Clifton East, Deputy Lead Cons Peter Abraham Stoke Bishop, Lead Cons Geoffrey Gollop, W-O-T). If you look at all the green space strategy areas you will see no sell off of land on the ones below only improvements, at our community cost but more importantly the cost to our children's wellbeing.
Look improvements only :-
Cabot, Clifton, Clifton east which includes areas Hotwells stokes Croft, Harbourside and City centre, Brandon Hill, Castle Pk, Queens Square,St James Barton, The Downs, Victoria Park. No disposal of land

Bishopston, Cotham, Redland which includes improvements to Cotham Gardens, Redland Green, St Andews Park. No disposal of land

Henleaze, Stoke Bishop, Westbury on Trym which includes improvements to Avon Gorge, Badocks Wood, Canford Park, Old Quarry Park, The Downs. No disposal of land.

The money raised will be 70% for improvements to remaining parks and 30% pure profit for the councils coffers and obviously help offset their bad investment in the Iceland Bank fiasco.
There are no targets from the new government to build houses, only incentives for each and every house built the council tax will be matched for 6 years, oh and if its affordable houses an extra 25% will go in the pot too. Yet another little earner for the council. Lovely Jubbly!
So its down to local councils to decide on number of homes built and where. Perhaps Barbara Janke is a NIMBY. Or is she proposing to buy St Ursula School retain some land with school buildings and the dispose of the vast 8 acre site to build new homes and protect other communities green space. Now that could be worth looking at Barbara Janke! That would be a prime site for developers!

I oppose, in particular, disposal & building on Muller Road Recreation Ground & Downend Park Farm.

im against this deleveopment as its a lovely green space to walk dogs,also i think it would spoil any decent views of henbury.

Plans to build housing on Okebourne Road Open Space, Elderberry Walk Open Space, Crow Lane Open Space and Arnall Drive Open Space are appalling. The council's claim that these green spaces are 'no longer required' is simply untrue. They are in use all the time by walkers, joggers, dog-walkers, families, teenagers chilling out on the grass listening to their ipods and children kicking balls around. I have even seen someone being pushed round in a wheelchair. According to the Council's own statistics about the Henbury and Southmead Neighbourhood, 8 out of 13 LSOAs fall within the most deprived category, crime and antisocial behaviour are major issues, and people don't feel safe out at night. The one thing this area does have in its favour is its green spaces - they are essential to the wellbeing of the nieghbourhood, and they are appreciated and much used by the residents. The council's statistics show that 79% of people in Henbury are satisfied with their parks and green spaces, a little higher than the city average, so why mess around trying to 'improve' them? The council's claims that building housing on the best parts of these green areas would somehow 'improve' them because they would 'increase supervision and overlooking of the space and increase perceptions of safety and security’ would be laughable if they weren't so utterly depressing. These green spaces MUST be left alone. Once built on, they are gone forever, and a vital part of what makes this a pleasant neighbourhood, and indeed a pleasant city, will be lost.

I oppose the loss of open space in Bristol - specifically the Council plans to build on Muller Road Recreation ground with Downend Park as the access road. I feel under siege from so much development & council imposition - Memorial Ground, parking restrictions and now this. People need space in which to be able to breathe and have some sense of space and well being. The area is being completely over developed. This is not what the residents want and the Council need to listen and stop this now.

why do we need to build on green spaces when thier plantly of unuse building already that are left empty.

There is a lot of evidence showing the importance of green spaces to health. We have a clear responsibility to maintain them for future generations

The most lovely thing about Bristol is all the green spaces; the wildlife it brings to the city, the spaces for children to play and breathe clear air, and an area to walk and feel like you are in the countryside. There are hundreds of houses in the city that could be restored, or big, concrete plots of land with run-down buildings on them which could be used! What idiot would build on the parks?!

what about the public right of way that runs from passage leaze, through the daisy field and under the railway line. when wellington mews was built the passage under the railway line was bricked up (wellington mews side). Surely this right of way should be open for people to use. was there permission to brick it up for building??????.

I seem to recollect during the recent election campain that there was mention of using the many houses that stand empty across the country for re-housing purposes. Well,I was re-housed with many others after the war in such a houses, requisitioned by the post war government.I think it is completely scandalous that so many empty house remain in a disused state. Politians,get your act together on this matter and SAVE OUR GREEN SPACES for our community enjoyment particulerly Woodwell and the Daisy Field. We certainly don't want anymore hideous, oversized three storey developements like the nearlly completed one on our Riverside allotment in Shirehampton.Perhaps this should be called Carbuncle Halls? We need our beautiful open spaces left for our community use and for future generations.

The green space around here is much loved, please don't build on it, once lost it can never be regained.

The destruction of old Shirehampton proposed 18 properties to be built in Woodwell Lane would seem to me to be an unwelcome transgression on a small portion of the past which surely could remain intact ad infinitum.

The daisy field was given to the community by Napier Miles (many of the older generation remmber this). It is therefore our land not the councils!! Several attempts have been made by member of SCAF to secure this land for community use, the community want to use it but the council continually turn it down often sighting the railway line as a potential hazzard yet they want to build houses on it!!!

I moved to lockleaze because of the open spaces, it would ne a travesty to let someone ruin them by building on them!

One of the most beautiful things about Bristol is the amount of green space it has managed to maintain. It is one of the reasons for me moving to the area. I use the green spaces all along the M32 regularly for walking and relaxing. I know of many others who do the same in their local areas of green space. It would be a travesty to lose it.

I moved to this area because of the large open green spaces near me and I use them regularly. I've always been proud that Bristol has maintained so many green spaces and has seen the value of them for all in the community. Please do not build on them.

The one thing I love about bristol is the fact that you are never too far from a green space.
I generally disagree with the proposed buildings but in particular I strongly disagree with building hose upon the daisy feils in Shirehampton. I walk my dog on this field almost everyday and rarely see it empty!! Building houses upon this site would be a great loss to the community.

I do not currently reside in the direct area, but make use of it regularly and wish to state my objection to the planned development.

The more open spaces the better!

There may be a need for housing but surely there is scope for regeneration to existing housing which are delapedated and needs restoration.There are few enough green belt spaces left in Bristol for kids/pets to go and pollution is already bad enough with the road system unable to cope with existing traffic.We don't want Bristol growing into a housing estate jungle like some major cities,this seems like a council which wants as much money it can get from ratepayers and building companies to offset budget cuts which are bound to happen.But this is very nearsighted and we should be building to improve the city not take the last few areas of beauty and space away from Bristolians:(

I would like my son to grow up in a place that has some green spaces left. Bristol is great as it is, we have a lovely city with places you can 'escape' to where you can feel like you're in the country. Please leave them alone!!!

like others iv lived in lockleze all my life its the only place i know where every one can walk just 100 yards to the fields and it feels like yer in the countryside no noise no traffic just piece and quiet i look out my window every morning and all i can see is beautiful fields and trees and wildlife where i walk my dog every day you can walk to snuff mills and the uwe filton and eastville an you only have to cross 1 road its nice for me and safe enough for my kids and everyone elses kids to play and walk without crossing busy roads i would not like to wake up 1 morning to lots of houses and flats a concrete jungle i think the fields benifit every one not just the people of lockleaze as other people come from other parts of the city to walk there dogs play with there children an its fun all year round even in winter when theres snow on the ground people come from other areas sa they dont have green spaces an the people of lockleaze are very lucky to have this it would be ashame to build on it please please please dont build on it there isent many gren spaces left were in locklease its everybodies open space so where ever u live weather its bedminster southmead where ever come and see and enjoy like we do bring yer kids dogs muns nans anyone and enjoy

Please review the situation at Wellington Hill. The Church Hall Young perople club use it extensively, as well as the Scouts at the other end of the field. I play foot ball here with my children and it would seem the council review of the green is very poorly reviewed as it is constantly used

Listen to the people of Bristol.

I am very shocked to hear that the council intend to build 1169 houses on the Lockleaze open space. I grew up playing on these fields, and my children have also grown up playing on the fields. we use the fields every day to walk the dogs and to walk up to my parents house. I find it very sad that where ever there is a green bit of open space, the council wants to sell it of and build on it. The beauty about Bristol, is that we are so green.It seems so silly that they wish to build so many houses on the Lockleaze field, when they have shut down half of the Romey Avenue primary school, and closed Lockleaze secondary school.Where are they planning to put all the children which will move into these new houses?

I grew up near this field and would be very sad to see this go, I am in my twenties and played here as a child and my family do so now...

I cant believe the council consider lockleaze open space to be redundant or unused land so many people use it everyday, if the people making these decisions lived anywhere near the sites they would understand this! It makes me so angry to see that they have not exhasted all other possibilities before destroying green belt land for houses that are not needed or wanted. when will the council start listening to us!!

Once again our short sighted Council strike again. Shirehampton lose their swimming pool, sports centre and now the open space we use to stretch our legs. Disgraceful. Stop this now, our open spaces are what makes Bristol such a special place to live.

Isn't it about time the council started listening to the people?????

The open spaces targeted for development may be of no interest to the council, but they are, in many cases, integral to the quality of life of residents.

I live near Okenborne Close,and not building more the houses on the fields to land yard square, its fields are friendly green tree,trees of pearce. the council alway spending threw away to waste of moneys for get more the houses, its not worth overcrowd to new the house and path, roads.

I live near the Okebourne open space - I am shocked to hear the council claim this site is no longer important for recreation, leisure and community use. I regularly use the park for dog walking, relaxing, and enjoying with friends. I always find other local children and families enjoying this site and its great views. Sites like Okebourne are extremely valuable for local communities and removing a significant part of it would hurt us all.

Such a shame to lose so many of our green spaces in Bristol

With all the building work going on around the Lockleaze & Horfield area this is the only area where you can go for a walk with your family or pet Plus
The road network around this area can not take any more traffic

These short sighted proposals will not only lead to Bristol becoming a concrete hell, but will also affect peoples mental health, leading to more crime and antisocial behaviour. This housing is neither required or wanted. I sincerely hope that the councillors supporting them will find affordable housing in their own front gardens. Bristol - green capital? My arse.

I have always had access to parks and green spaces (Horfield Common was my childhood place for games etc) I want my grand children and future generations to have the same opportunity.

It would be great if this campaign and petition could have covered the whole of Bristol.

there's plenty of spaces for development, don't ruin this unique and high quality one. The focus is supposed to be development of brownfield, not green belt - You wouldn't build on the Downs, please don't do it here - this open space mustn't be lost unnecessarily. All recent council reports on lockleaze criticise the lack of availability of space, and lack of things to do for young people - the area needs better facilities, not more housing

If Bristol would like to become the European Green Capital and already has a reputation as a green capital based on the quality of our open spaces,I can't see us achieving it if our much valued and used green spaces are taken away.
Improving parks over 20years is no compensation for losing this much valued area.

Help! We need our green land!
Many thanks for your support everyone.

I live near the propsed site at okebourne in Brentry. I use this area every day after a stressful day teaching at school. To get some fresh air, wlk my dogs and talk to my neighbours enables me to live a balanced life. This area is always used by locals of all ages. It is also an area where you can easily watch wildlife like foxes, badgers and birds. This winter in the snow, it felt like the whole community came out to enjoy the hill and everyone of all ages took part and had fun. It is also one of the rare places that children can play safefly, get dirty and have old fashioned fun which is hard to come by these days.

I live near the proposed site on Woodwell Road and am appalled at the plans to convert it into housing/traveller site. We have a motorway near us, pollution from Avonmouth/ Portbury and constant traffic on the Portway, please, please, please DO NOT take another piece of greenery away. It's a small haven in the storm of life. Plus, the road itself is tiny. If a car comes along it you have to practically stand inside the bushes. Putting houses there would cause utter chaos. Not to mention we have just been through a recession and the Council wants to throw good money after bad by creating new houses when there are plenty of boarded up houses in the area (look at Trymside in Sea Mills) that could be renovated. Use a bit of common sense Bristol City Council and leave Woodwell Road and the Daisy Field alone.

I live in Lockleaze,Lockleaze Open Space is a valuable space for all of Bristol. The strain on local amenities will be unbearable if they were to build on Lockleaze Open Space.Schools in recent years have been closed. There will already be aprox 1000 new homes in Lockleaze without the suggestion of Lockleaze Open Space being developed . Our Health Centre is already at Capacity, often patients are waiting a week before their able to be seen. Our roads are in the councils own red zone for noise.Why ruin this tranquil oasis, the destruction would be devastating to the area and wildlife.This is an area where people young, old abled and disabled often roam soaking up the peace and looking at the beauty,listening to the birds and watching the rabbits play, what better way can you spend a day.

Why is the council selling off this land to create affordable housing, when there are many council houses in the area, just boarded up and not being used as well as areas of derelict land such as where the swimming pool used to be. They are just looking to make a fast buck and using 'affordable housing' as an excuse.

We should start to produce a list of underused, derelict or just empty buildings in Bristol and ensure these are made fit for use and used rather than allowing development on our few green spaces

I use the open space at the end of my road every day in some way or another. I walk my dog and I go there with my children to play ball games. I am a registered childminder and often use the space for the children for whom I care. If it were to be taken away, it would be a sad loss. It serves as a link between the local community. I often see my neighbours and have made friends with people I did not speak to before.

The local traffic is already extremely congested off the Muller and Shaldon road junctions and 400 new dwellings will just add to this problem. Also, the open space houses an abundance of wildlife - has any thought gone into what will happen to them? The fields are used for cycling, walking, jogging, and a general meeting point for dog walkers not forgetting those that use it for relaxing on lazy sunny days during the summer - where are we now going to participate in our daily exercise? Please leave this lovely, open green space alone, in what is otherwise a very congested built up city.

Its International Year of Biodiversity this year and what does our so-called green city want to do? Flog off some of our parks and green spaces! Given the very strong reaction from the public to this council plan from all over the city it would be undemocratic to continue with it – in fact they should be planning to increase green spaces wherever it is possible to do so as there is a value to them well beyond cash.

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Take a look at the volume of traffic locally - more houses means more congestion - what next a fly-over at crowe lane roundabout!!Where is our quality of life if we allow the council to go on grabing more land for the sake of ever increasing revenues - No No No

shirehampton has been stripped of our local facilities, especially those which could potentially bring employment, leisure and relief from living by the Portway and the ever noisy motorway. Why has the park and ride site been seemingly abandoned, being used as a dumping ground for bus stop shelters? Why has the land where was once a swimming pool existed, been left abandoned. It is immoral, and a disgrace. We do NOT WANT TO LOSE the DAISY fIELD as well!

Replace run down buildings with new ones don't just build more houses. I love to be able to see the hills from my house and know fresh air is just a short bike ride away. How can a cycling city discourage people from being outside?!

Why are we building on green spaces when there are other sites that could be built on like the old Romney Avenue School site.
Also what about wildlife flowers & animals on Purdown you get bats, birds, deer, foxes in the woods and around behind houses in Romney Avenue where the Council is planning to build we have to speak on there behalf. Are the Council planning to build more Schools, Doctors surgery, Etc to accommidate all the new residents

I love Bristol for it's green spaces within the city. Please don't fill them in. Let's tackle empty housing and weekend homes. Do people really live in the new harbourside developments ?

I feel building over our green spaces is foolish and short sighted. We should invest more in natural capital rather than put it under concrete. I'd like to see more food being grown in our immediate landscape and a committed limits placed on unrealistic and unfounded housing development targets.

Green spaces in Bristol are now in short supply and I am appalled at the prospect of such space being lost in this part, or indeed, any part, of Bristol. It is a much loved open area that I enjoyed as a child and as an adult, and that my children and their children still enjoy - not least because it is a significant wild-life haven. 'Greed' is no substitute for 'green'.

I now live in London, but was born and grew up in Bristol. I spent many happy days playing with friends, walking dogs and exploring Purdown and the area around it. Bristol is not hugely blessed with greenspace and parks and needs all it can get. My old school fields (Monks Park) has already been devastated by developers. Please reconsider this scheme, which seems to be yet another badly thought through and short-term answer to the area's housing needs. The area badly needs green space, and the city as a whole benefits from its reputation as a live-able place. Don't sell Bristol and its citizens short.

Bristol has a huge number of unused buildings which could be converted into housing without taking up green space.

Bristol needs all the open space it can get. I am horrified at the council's plans to build on open space in Lockleaze. Far better to buy up brownfield sites, of which there are plenty, and use those. Lazy planning strikes again.

Save bristols green spaces

My family and I are extremely sadden to hear you have plans to sell off plots BSA0109 The grazing land at woodwell road and plot BSA0105 The daisy field or The portway tip site although you would never know it use to be a tip. As a family and even when we were young children our selves we have and still enjoy both these site and have regular pic niks, ball games and nature walks as well as regular trips across the road to feed the pony in the grazing field which my daughters both adore. We all have very fond memorys as do most of the local community and we strong object that you deem these sites as waste land. The council has already taken our swimming bath and sport centre and now your after our green spaces as well this is not fair at all. As well as losing beautiful spaces we will be losing places where the local community walk their dogs and exercise, our animals graze and not forgetting the stunning views of the river avon and the parish of pill.Please leave these green spaces so the next generation can enjoy them.

I am absolutley devastated to hear about these plans to build on the Lockleaze open space. As a dog owner and a runner I use this open space daily, like many other people that I see on Purdown. There are not enough open spaces in this area. This space is invaluable and needs to be protected for the community and the wild life that lives there.

we need less people,not more houses.

Why build new houses on green land, when so many building in Bristol are standing empty?

There are still plenty of other brownfield sites that can be used to create new homes on. Only difference is that they don't belong to BCC. When green space has gone it can't be put back.

Bristol has won awards or come second as greenest city in the UK/Europe. Lets keep it that way!

I use this area evey day - building houses here would be a great loss to the enviremental movement

Don't turn Bristol into London! This is the Southwest. We like greenery!

I don't live in lockleaze, but i'm all for saving open green space, for everyone to enjoy and to keep the local wildlife.
I think we have enough congestion to deal with without adding to it.
Isn't Bristol suppose to be one of the worst places for congestion?
Why don't the council and goverment spend the money on improving our road networks and provide better transport?

We need this space. Just because it is open it is not a waste of space. Please respect the lungs of our beautiful city. This is a big global issue and truly, we must think globally, but we must also act locally. This is a oved and valued open space and heaven knows, there are few enough.

The open space should be protected, this area is also overcrowded for facilities and schools as it is. :(

Lockleaze Open Space is a haven for wildlife such as deer, bats, owls and foxes. It is well used for sports, and recreational use. Any development will cause further congestion on already busy roads such as Muller Road; school places are already limited; health services are also stretched.
We bought our house primarily because of the open space behind our house. Our 3 children have grown up here. Please do not take the woods and green space from them and all other users of this wonderful space.

I may be old but I appreciate the open space near my grandaughter's house when I stayed there - I went out in my wheelchair to the allotments. I did not serve in a world war for the country's freedom and pay tax all these years to have my amenities taken away. The younger generation are being encouraged to be lazy and greedy, they need learn gardening and outdoor hobbies not just computers, surely taking away their recreation facilities and sticking them indoors in overcrowded housing estates is not helping. If the council continues to encourage laziness and greediness then they will not be able to police these areas, crime will rise and they will regret the society they create. I am against the development of woodwell road, and the daisyfield in shirehampton.

Our allotment and grazing land should be protected from further development,we have waiting lists for both.Why take Shirehamptons green spaces when the land where our swimming baths, St.Bernards centre and former prefabs once stood stands derelict!

Bad enough that Myrtle Drive's open space has been ruined with ugly, unsightly and out of keeping houses.. leave the rest of Shirehampton's open spaces alone! Try doing this in Henleaze or Stoke Bishop... no, that's right: you wouldn't because you know you wouldn't get away with it!

Why are even more houses being built in this area,there is nothing for the children to do here now,traffic on muller road is abysmal,the council goes on about recycling,greener bristol etc,but see fit to clog up the road with more cars,and remove more green areas,we are supposed to be doing things to stop childhood obesity,but where will they play when all the fields have houses on them??

I live near the grazing field outlined as a so called disused allotment in shirehampton and it is not disused at all - people graze horses and pay the council rent for those fields. There is a waiting list for allotments and grazing fields, the council need to find more and get those rents coming in long term rather than sell off for a fast buck to pay off debts they incur at the council tax payers expense. They are wasting our money and wanting to build urban developments as a way of filling the pocket but they dont want to improve the area. Half of Shirehampton has never been residential in the typical sense and it should stay as it is. They will only run up more debts anyway and it goes against their other policy of telling people to recycle grow our own etc. If all the fields are gone man will starve.

I am 100 percent fed up with this land grab, please leave the green spaces alone they are few and far between, and people need to graze their animals and do allotments there is a waiting list for this land.

We need to keep the Daisy Field in Shirehampton. It is the only bit of green Space we have along the busy commuter route of the Portway. It is constantly used by the community and one thing we certainly do not need is more housing.

The Daisy Field in Shirehampton needs to be saved. We don't need even more housing at the cost of losing our very own green spaces. What Shirehampton desperately needs is the local facilities lost to previous councils replaced such as our Youth Club, Swimming Baths, Robin Cousins Sport Centre re-opened, local community events supported and so on. We cannot take the strain and pain of even more housing in the area. We need the Daisyfield for our use, community use. Please do not destroy all the hard work, trees, shrubs and flowers planted. It is our green space.

This is all so shortsighted. Bristol City Council recently conducted a survey amongst their staff to find out what is great about living in Bristol. Top of the list - access to green spaces. Lockleaze Open Space is part of one of the jewels in Bristol's crown. And once it's gone, it's gone. As already stated, the road infrastructure can not support more housing - congestion is already very bad, and there are very limited facilities for the people already here.

I use the space every day and have done for years, as do many others. My big concern is that this has not been publicised very well - I received a letter, but many who live round the corner didn't.

The road infrastructure cannot cope with existing local traffic, particularly at rush hour, so additional dense housing will only exacerbate the problems for all who use the local road network.

No one wants to live near a gypsy and traveller residential site, as proposed in the Options for Site Allocations and Proposed Designations document.

These "unused" spaces are not unused. I use them every day and have done for years. I would like to continue to do so. I bought my house here because there are local parks nearby.

Even with the existing green spaces Horfield already has one of the highest population densities in the city. Relentless development, densification and loss of amenity space is reducing the quality of life in Bristol.