STROUD is exactly the kind of area which needs a Local Plan.

It is almost on a weekly basis that planning applications are submitted and re-submitted for developments in our green fields and countryside.

Campaigners are fed up, having to fight endless applications.

The reason that people move to Stroud is due to its stunning countryside.

New homes can now be built on suitable sites, and areas of natural beauty which residents have had to endlessly fight to save, will be given protection.

Hopefully now developers will think twice before they cherry-pick sites to develop.

Of course, the plan won’t please everyone but there have to be compromises.

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