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Thousands of homes for new neighbourhood
Thousands of new homes will be built on Filton Airfield after plans were approved to convert the historic site into a huge new neighbourhood.
Councillors gave the go-ahead for 2,675 homes along the 353-acre runway site – the former home of Concorde.
The latest plans are just one part of a huge development dubbed Filton Keynes which will bring 5,700 new homes to the edge of Bristol between Cribbs Causeway and Patchway.
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Plans also include business units, a 120-bed hotel, a secondary school, two primary schools, two nurseries, a dental surgery, a health centre a pub, a park, a new reilway station, links to the new MetroBus and a supermarket.
Critics have raised concerns about the impact the new development will have on already busy roads coming in and out of Bristol.
But Bristol City Council and South Gloucestershire Council have insisted transport problems have been ironed out.
The entire development could take 20 years to build and would provide more than 7,000 jobs in total.
Land owner BAE Systems submitted an application for the airfield to South Gloucestershire Council last year and work could now start next year.
The airfield closed at the end of 2012 after BAE Systems said the site was no longer viable and announced its intention to sell the land for housing and business development.
