Wisloe Garden Village Plan, why it is WRONG

02/10/2026

Local Plan Examination - Update from the Programme Officer - Dedicated Transport Hearing Session 02.10.2026

The Inspectors have now issued the agenda for the session, which is available to view here: Examination Library

It can now be confirmed that the hearing session will be held in the Committee Room at Stroud District Council on 20 October 2026.

Participation in the session is limited to Stroud District Council, Gloucestershire County Council, National Highways and South Gloucestershire Council.

Participation in the session is limited to Stroud District Council, Gloucestershire County Council, National Highways and South Gloucestershire Council.

Members of the public are welcome to observe the proceedings both online and in person. In person observation capacity is limited.

The hearing will be live-streamed and recorded via the Council's YouTube channel homepage available here: Stroud District Council - YouTube https://www.youtube.com//videos

Local Plan Examination - Update from the Programme Officer - Dedicated Transport Hearing Session 23.09.2026

The Inspectors have now confirmed that the dedicated Transport Hearing Session will take place on 20 October 2026, commencing at 10:00am.

Participation in this session will be limited to representatives from Stroud District Council, Gloucestershire County Council, National Highways, and South Gloucestershire Council.

The session will be held at:

Stroud District Council Offices
Ebley Mill, Ebley Wharf
Stroud, Gloucestershire
GL5 4UB

The specific meeting room will be confirmed closer to the date of the hearing and published here. Members of the public are welcome to observe the session. However, anyone wishing to attend is advised to contact the Programme Officer in advance to confirm their attendance. This will help ensure that sufficient capacity is available for all those who wish to observe.

Charlotte Banks [email protected]

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29/07/2026

If you are looking for the Examination Library and keep getting A HTTP 404 error, "page not found" it's because they have changed the address to https://www.stroud.gov.uk/planning-and-building-control/planning-strategy/stroud-district-local-plan-review/local-plan-examination/ don't know or why they didn't leave a page up saying it had moved and or redirecting it to the new page but clearly someone doesn't want us to know what's going on.

12/07/2026

Latest Update from the Inspectors

Stroud District Local Plan Review Examination
Inspectors: Victoria Lucas LLB MCD MRTPI and
Yvonne Wright BSc (Hons) DipTP MSc DMS MRTPI
Programme Officer: Charlotte Glancy
Email: [email protected]
Tel: 07519 628064
____________________________________________________
Ms Kathy O’Leary
Chief Executive
Stroud District Council
Sent by email
30 June 2026
Dear Ms O’Leary

Stroud District Local Plan Review Examination

1. Thank you for your letter dated 5 May 2026 regarding the additional questions to Matter 11 (published 25 March 2026). We have carefully considered your response alongside those from the other organisations who were consulted. Having reflected on all the responses and the issues raised, we consider it necessary to hold a further hearing session as soon as possible, so that we may discuss these. This session will focus on the updated strategic transport evidence and recent responses.

2. The Programme Officer will be in touch with you shortly, to arrange a virtual hearing session. Participation will be limited to representatives from Stroud District Council, Gloucestershire County Council, South Gloucestershire Council and National Highways to reflect the focused discussion that is necessary at this time. The public should be able to view the session online. We wish to hold the session as soon as possible during July/August, subject to the availability of participants.

Once the date is set, we will issue an agenda. In the meantime, this
letter should be placed on the Examination webpage upon receipt.

Yours sincerely,

Victoria Lucas and Yvonne Wright
Inspectors appointed to examine the Stroud District Local Plan Review

30/06/2026

Well they haven't got this Local plan approved but they are starting up the next plan for 15-20 years. I really think this shouldn't be started until they have this plan sorted. The first thing the Plan should have which will be worse by the time this Plan is finish is more Doctors, Dentist and food shops, it's a joke now and won't be helped by all the new builds and if this Plan ever goes through.
https://www.stroud.gov.uk/environment/planning-and-building-control/planning-strategy/new-local-plan-2026/

https://www.stroud.gov.uk/media/ncdbqybd/early-scoping-consultation-2026.pdf

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27/06/2026

Just popped on to the Examination Page, https://www.stroud.gov.uk/environment/planning-and-building-control/planning-strategy/stroud-district-local-plan-review/local-plan-examination/examination-library, to find all these letter, I haven't read them yet, probably no good news in here.

Update from the Programme Officer 18.06.2026

Stroud District Council response to the Inspectors

National Highways response to the Inspectors

Gloucestershire County Council Covering Letter

Gloucestershire County Council response to the Inspectors

South Gloucestershire Council response to the Inspectors

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19/04/2026

Update on the refund of the original ALC which proved to be either highly inaccurate or ?

Question: getting on for 6 years since the ALC survey was supposedly carried out, unseen by anyone here, by Soil Environment Service and still no word of a refund or of any action?

Answer: We have liaised with the relevant service area who have confirmed that The Ernest Cook Trust (the major landowner) has taken the matter up with the company concerned and therefore the issue remains unresolved.

So basically no answer

In 2025 they said
there had been no settlement finalised to date, nothing was held in respect of an update on this matter. However, we were able to advise under Section 16 of the Freedom of Information Act - Duty to Assist - that discussions around this matter were continuing, with the intention of reaching a future resolution. Though it was caveated that, as this was a fluid and ongoing matter, we were unable to provide any indication of when a resolution may be reached.

In 2022 I asked

1 What did this ALC cost GCC

Answer: £705 excluding VAT

2 What is GCC doing to a, recover these costs and b, to find out what happened, was this faked or incompetence?

Answer: GCC jointly commissioned the Soil Environment Services to provide an Agricultural Land Classification. A member of the project team has taken matters up with the company concerned and GCC will benefit from its share of any settlement agreed.

19/04/2026

Update

How has GCC spent on the Wisloe Dev?

2018 £15,517.20
2019 £36,966.71
2020 £41,603.69
2021 £87,856.19
2022 £56,595.21
2023 £67,437.64
2024 £37,037.87
2025 £18,497.46 So far, I guess they don't have all the figures in yet.

So over £361,511.97