Village on the edge of Bristol turns out to fight plans to make it a town View 4 Images

There weren’t many seats in the Legion in Whitchurch Village on Tuesday night, but it wasn’t the football or a birthday party that had brought people from across the community together. Sitting in worried groups, more than 100 people studied maps and charts, and listened to their local councillor explain what the future of their village could look like .

Cllr Paul May sits on the council’s cabinet over in Bath and is responsible for children’s services, but it is what the planning department is doing that is vexing him, and has brought all the villagers out on a dark and blustery Tuesday evening.

B&NES planners are taking the new Labour Government’s message to look to the Green Belt as a pl

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