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Green light for first stage of development that could lead to a new Gloucestershire town

The first building block of a proposed new Gloucestershire town has been put in place by Gloucestershire County Council.

On Wednesday, the authority gave consent to the recommendations for the Ashchurch Bridge over Rail project - a scheme that will free-up development land to the east of Tewkesbury.

The Tewkesbury Garden Town initiative has been in development for some time, heralded as a "development that will help to meet the housing and employment needs for the longer term.

It will also be "delivering infrastructure to support the development" - one of which is the access roads that would be needed to build to the east of the existing town.

Part of that would be the bridge over the railway in Ashchurch and the county council have now given the green light to proceed.

Funding to the tune of £8million has already been secured by Tewkesbury Borough Council from the Homes England Housing Infrastructure Fund.

The new bridge would be used by a new link road to the south of the A46 and would therefore ease the workload on that route and its junction with the M5 motorway.

The county council are the lead authority for Highways and they will now"enter into a Consultancy Services Agreement" with Tewkesbury Borough Council to deliver the scheme.

Documents discussed at Wednesday's meeting said: "The aim of the bridge is to unlock the Garden Town development opportunity to the north east of Tewkesbury."

There are many other stages of planning protocol and permissions to be granted before that becomes a reality but if completed it would transform the town.

Across multiple build phases, more than 8,000 houses would be built with 120 hectares of employment land also set aside in the plan.

Two hectares of retail space and six for schools would also be part of the plan that would see developments on land as far as Aston Cross, 1.6 miles to the east of junction 9 on the M5.

The development would include the current Ministry of Defence site at Ashchurch as well as fields to the north and south of the A46.

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