This is one of a series of draft town centre South Gloucestershire profiles which will be used to inform future Council planning policy. Comments are invited. Please send suggestions for change to Policies, Sites & Places Plan
[email protected] st Draft Town Centre Profiles To arrive by 31 December 2013. Stoke Gifford Potential District Centre – Draft Profile November 2013 1. Location Stoke Gifford village has a local centre close to the Church and at Ratcliff Drive north of the railway line. This is too small to be considered as a town centre or to accommodate major change. The part of Stoke Gifford south and east of the main railway line flows across Harry Stoke to the M4/M32 in the east and District Boundary at Cheswick Village in the south. There is no defined town centre in this location at present but there are two major stores at Fox Den Road and a retail park at Abbeywood. This broad area has a major university campus, office jobs at Abbeywood and Parkway, two stations, schools, a proposed sports stadium and proposals for over 4,000 new dwellings. It is in this context that the need to create a more clearly defined town centre has been raised through the Core Strategy. 2. Origin Although parts of Stoke Gifford and Harry Stoke are of historic origins as agricultural and coal mining communities the area has been radically redeveloped since the 1970s. Initially planning policies sought to concentrate employment floorspace in this area but more recently a more balanced strategy of allowing for residential development has been followed.