Hanham Green Belt

As members of Hanham District Green Belt Conservation Society, we are all too familiar with the relentless pressure to build over our local fields. Developers routinely eye up our precious green spaces, claiming they are the "easiest" way to meet South Gloucestershire’s housing targets. Meanwhile, complex brownfield sites right on our doorstep sit empty. A prime example is the former Kleeneze factory site off Anstey’s Road. Purchased by the government housing agency Homes England in 2020,...

The Batch in Hanham, South Gloucestershire There is a painful irony at the heart of Britain's housing crisis, and it is one that residents of Hanham understand better than most. Across the country, the major housebuilders are becoming increasingly choosy about the development sites they are willing to pursue. Faced with squeezed profit margins, rising build costs, and a planning system choked with delay, the giants of UK residential development — among them Barratt Redrow, Persimmon, Taylor...

The mounting challenges facing development of 140 homes on Green Belt land south of Hencliffe Way Planning Application P23/01330/O | April 2026 The appeal for outline planning permission to build up to 140 homes on The Batch — the 20-acre site south of Hencliffe Way and west of Castle Farm Road in Hanham — was allowed by Planning Inspector Matthew Nunn in July 2025. Hanham District Green Belt Conservation Society, along with South Gloucestershire Council, opposed the appeal vigorously. More...