The big news today is that the ruling Conservative group on the County Council have pledged not to sell County Council land at Northwest Cheltenham to the prospective deevelopers, Bloor and Persimmon who want to build 4,500 homes there. As the County Council owns a lot of the land there , this may block the proposed development, though the developers may still apply to build on land they own.
This story raises the question as whether an application to build in the Leckhampton#Shurdington area could be similarly blocked. The County Council owns some land in the Cheltenham part of the Leckhampton White Land, but probably not enough to stop development there. A larger parcel of land belongs to the Church, and if they refused to sell it would certainly block development on the Cheltenham White Land, where Bovis would like to build.
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