Watching
Willsbridge / Bitton Green Belt watch
Green Belt, village separation, drainage, landscape and road impact should be checked against any named site or formal application.
Homes: TBC
The Squeeze
Audit
One place to watch the planning threats, report the daily squeezes, and see what your neighbours have already raised. Every cycle, we publish what was reported, what was done, and what is still outstanding.
Live Tracking
Planning and Green Belt watch points.
A working list, updated as cases move. These watch points reflect campaign judgement, not formal status. Always check the South Glos planning portal for the legal record.
Watching
Hanham / Hanham Abbots edge watch
Watching any named application affecting Hanham's green edge, local traffic, pavements, GP access, drainage or community identity.
Homes: TBC
Watching
Longwell Green A4174 / retail park watch
Watching future pressure around the A4174 corridor, Kingsfield Roundabout, the retail park, employment land, buses and crossings.
Homes: TBC
Evidence logged
South Gloucestershire Local Plan submitted
South Gloucestershire Council submitted its Local Plan to the Planning Inspectorate on 24 October 2025. Stop The Squeeze will track what this means for the four South Glos wards.
Homes: Not applicable
Methodology
How the audit works.
Stop The Squeeze is not launching with speeches. It is launching with evidence. The Squeeze Audit is a public, transparent collection of resident reports across Our South Glos, and a published response to them on a fixed cycle.
01
Resident reports
You tell us what is being squeezed where you live, by category and community.
02
Public log
Every report is anonymised and added to the live dashboard so neighbours can see the pattern.
03
Action
Issues are passed to the right body, council, NHS, transport, with the campaign chasing for a response.
04
Report back
Every 30 days we publish what was raised, what was actioned, what was answered and what is still outstanding.
The promise
If you tell us about it, it appears in the report-back. Even if the answer was "we couldn't fix it", that goes in too. Quiet politics is not what this is.
The form
Report a local squeeze.
Pick the community. Pick the category. Tell us what is happening. Photos help when something is visible, a pavement, a bus stop, a planning notice, but they aren't required.
Reports take roughly two minutes. Your name is not published. The summary is.
"We won't know how bad it is unless people tell us. That's the whole point. The audit turns feeling into fact."
Six categories
· Squeezed Space
· Squeezed Streets
· Squeezed Services
· Squeezed Buses
· Squeezed Wallets
· Squeezed Voice
Report the Squeeze
Live Dashboard
The squeeze, mapped.
An anonymised view of what residents have already raised across Our South Glos. Filter by category, by community, or browse the recent log.
Our South Glos, Live Ward Map
Click a ward to reveal what residents have flagged
Space
Streets
Services
Buses
Planning
Voice
The Three Tests
Every planning application has to pass them.
If a planning application cannot pass these three tests, Stop The Squeeze will challenge it. Simple as that.
Distinct Communities
Does the proposal preserve the green belt between named communities, or close it?
Infrastructure First
Are roads, GP access, schools, buses and local services funded and timed — or just promised?
Local Voice
Have local residents had a meaningful say, or were they consulted as a formality?
Important
Stop The Squeeze is not anti-housing. It is anti-housing-without-infrastructure. A development that meets all three tests is a development we can live with. Most of what we are seeing right now does not.
Transparency
What we do with your report.
- Your name and email stay private. They never appear on the dashboard. They are stored to allow us to contact you about your specific issue if you ticked that box.
- A basic report-received line may appear first. For example: "Report received about potholes in Hanham." Fuller summaries are only published after manual checking.
- Photos are reviewed before publication. They appear only if no one is identifiable in them and they are useful evidence.
- Reports are passed on. Council, NHS, transport, planning, whichever body owns the issue, we forward and track it.
- Every 30 days we publish a public report-back. Checked issues appear by community and category, with what was done.
See the full privacy policy for how we store data.