HomeIntroductionWelcome to the website of the village of Compton Greenfield. This web site has been set up to represent and display the feelings and comradeship of the old established local inhabitents, some who have lived in this village for all of their life. Recently however the local council have treated these people with absolute contempt in forcing by what ever means possible drastic and irreversable changes for reasons unknown, to the detrement of the local community and their enjoyment of this beautiful old village, a village that is mentioned in the doomesday book. Local Planning Concerns September 2013Compton Greenfield is under a huge threat from the Westgate Development, which will bring industrial units right up to the church and within a few hundred yards of our access road Berwick Lane. This as we know has suffered flooding issues since The Mall development on the top end and Western Approaches development where historical drainage watercources have been closed off or re-routed. Residents and recommended to look at the plans and will note that Lydd Brook will be literally cut off at the start of Westgate with no where for the flood water to go, no drainage provisions are shown!! thedevelopment will raise the land and cause a dam inevitably submerging us all. Click here for more info. To compound this concern, it has been noted that a new travellor site is applied for just behind Spanniorum farm South Gloucestershire council planning website ref PT13/2557/f where this is applied for is in an existing flooding area, where water runs off the hills and congregates where an old drainage rhine was filled in on the North side of the site, with the Westgate issues we should all be concerned. Residents should look up the applications noted here
Brief HistoryCompton Greenfield was originally part of the hamlet of Blaise Castle, seperated from there many years ago, it has been a farming and agricultural comunity until the motorway sliced the farm land up into smaller areas. Originally having a cider factory at Spanniorum which meant the local land had a large areas set aside for apple trees, this disappeared in the early 1950's. There was also several small holdings occupied by market gardens, these have fallen into decline and now replaced with a couple of local businesses connected with road transport, a gymnasium and one market garden.
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