2381 PROPOSED NEW HOMES FOR BACKWELL!

Backwell Parish Council would welcome your input on two key issues affecting our community. 2381 PROPOSED NEW HOMES FOR BACKWELL North Somerset Council (NSC) are currently running a consultation on possible new sites for building in and around Backwell.  They have been asked by the government to find 8500 new homes across the whole of the district. The consultation ends on 21st March. At the end of April, NSC will then issue draft proposals for which of these sites they would welcome planning applications, as part of the process that will lead to the adoption of a new Local Plan for North Somerset. You can access the consultation at: https://n-somerset-pp.inconsult.uk/Reg19AddSites/consultationHome If you head for the section relating to Backwell, you will be able to comment on each of the potential building sites for our village. The total amount of proposed houses if all these sites were developed is 1,785. This does [...]

2381 PROPOSED NEW HOMES FOR BACKWELL!2025-02-26T15:53:39+00:00

Farleigh Fields Local Green Space

Update – 8th October 2024 At our recent meeting, the Parish Council agreed that we were happy to proceed with Persimmon Homes’ offer to let us take control of a Local Green Space on Farleigh Fields for future community use. Understandably this has led to significant interest in the village as people wonder what the options are for this important piece of land. Earlier this year, the Parish Council set up a working party to look into this, with a brief of ensuring that any venture did not expose us to significant financial risk and administrative burden for now and in the long term future, and that any amenity would provide significant social benefit to the whole of the village. Research is advancing on the complexities of the Transfer of Ownership and we have looked at a number of proposals in detail. Although it is still too early to set [...]

Farleigh Fields Local Green Space2024-10-16T13:18:45+00:00

Formation of Local Plan WP

The Development 18 - 36 Working Party completed its work in Spring 2020 and was closed. That was partly because our efforts needed to be concentrated on the North Somerset Council Local Plan and more details can be found here.

Formation of Local Plan WP2020-11-20T16:59:18+00:00

Local Plan Working Party

27  April 2022 Backwell Parish Council's responses to the North Somerset Council Local Plan consultation have now been submitted to North Somerset Council and can be read here. We expect our responses will also be published on the North Somerset Council website in due course. We are very grateful for the input of residents and the thoughtful written comments submitted to us which informed and aided our work. We encourage residents to also submit their comments directly to North Somerset Council as individuals before the deadline of 29 April. Backwell Parish Council Local Plan Working Party's current activity is now completed and so both the working party and this page are now closed and so will not be updated for the time being. The full Backwell Parish Council will decide about future steps.   14 April 2022 The drop-in sessions described below went well with strong engagement from a wide [...]

Local Plan Working Party2022-04-27T07:39:25+00:00

Rodney Road / Scout Hut area development

This is a statement of our initial understanding as on 22 October 2019 of a development proposal for an area near the Backwell Scout Hut accessed from Rodney Road follows and here:   22 October 2019: Statement for Residents on possible Taylor Wimpey Planning Application for land near the Backwell Scout Hut We have been seeking information about a potential planning application in relation to land immediately to the West of the Backwell Scout Hut. To date we have been able to clarify with Taylor Wimpey that: They are consulting and investigating the possibility of applying for approximately 60 houses on this site, accessed from Rodney Road. They have told Backwell Parish Council that they will be holding a public consultation / presentation during the afternoon and into the evening of Thursday 21 November 2019 in the Parish Hall. No planning application has been made and will not be submitted [...]

Rodney Road / Scout Hut area development2020-11-20T12:09:06+00:00

JSP Examination letters

The below are two very important letters from the government inspectors who examined the Joint Spatial Plan. We need to hear the response from the four Councils but we consider this very encouraging and suggests our arguments were heard and understood. We will be holding a meeting of the 18-36 Working Party soon to consider next steps.   Letter from Inspectors 1 Letter from Inspectors 2  

JSP Examination letters2020-09-15T21:41:17+00:00

Humming Bird hawk moth

The photograph of this amazing creature was taken in a Backwell garden in June 2019 (the photographer gave permission for us to share it but does not want to be named). This creature is a moth and, as a result of convergent evolution to match an environmental habitat, it has become incredibly similar to a Humming Bird. Another example of evolutionary convergence may be our hedgehogs and the Australian echidna.

Humming Bird hawk moth2019-06-24T13:28:33+00:00

Grass-snakes

Backwell is very fortunate to still have some splendid wildlife - but it needs our support. Hedgehogs are easy to love but strangely many people are fearful of snakes. The attached is a picture taken by Mrs J Watts in the Backwell Playing fields and probably because of the strong markings, some people posted on Facebook that it was an adder. Adders are VERY beautiful but small animals that need our protection and are timid and very rarely bite - mostly when they are being attacked. Grass-snakes can be much bigger, like living near water or lower areas (such as Backwell village) and are entirely harmless beautiful creatures. Grass-snakes are the only UK snake to lay eggs (adders give birth to live young) so if you find leathery eggs in a compost-heap they will be grass-snake eggs. All reptiles are protected by law. Dr John Wilkinson (Amphibian and Reptile Conservation, [...]

Grass-snakes2019-05-05T09:22:15+00:00
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