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Title: Charfield reopening?
Post by: infoman on November 23, 2021, 17:25:17
Only just spotted this

https://consultations.southglos.gov.uk/CharfieldStation/consultationHome

Shame as it would have been nice to have visited (now gone) the public consultation/s


Title: Re: Charfield reopening?
Post by: stuving on November 23, 2021, 18:01:40
Only just spotted this

https://consultations.southglos.gov.uk/CharfieldStation/consultationHome

Shame as it would have been nice to have visited (now gone) the public consultation/s

Don't CGIsts have some funny ideas about realism? Like the leaves on the trees are all fluttering in the breeze, but the people are all frozen rigid. And not one of them was looking at a phone, let alone fingering the screen.


Title: Re: Charfield reopening?
Post by: Ralph Ayres on November 24, 2021, 11:54:55
...and it's always a lovely sunny day!  It's much more important for prospective users to see what it will be like on a wet and windy day, or a cold and drizzly night.


Title: Re: Charfield reopening?
Post by: Red Squirrel on October 05, 2022, 17:38:17
The following planning application has been submitted to South Glos Council:

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Installation of 2 no. platform railway station with station forecourt ((including cycle parking, bus shelter and car parking), erection of pedestrian footbridge and accessible lifts, passenger waiting shelters, creation of car park off Station road, with associated infrastructure and works to Sta... | Land Off Station Road Charfield South Gloucestershire

Go to www.southglos.gov.uk/planning-applications and search application number P22/05778/R3F for full details.

(Some people seem able to link directly to these things; I've never managed to work out how it's done!)


Title: Re: Charfield reopening?
Post by: paul7575 on October 05, 2022, 19:46:15
The following planning application has been submitted to South Glos Council:

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Installation of 2 no. platform railway station with station forecourt ((including cycle parking, bus shelter and car parking), erection of pedestrian footbridge and accessible lifts, passenger waiting shelters, creation of car park off Station road, with associated infrastructure and works to Sta... | Land Off Station Road Charfield South Gloucestershire

Go to www.southglos.gov.uk/planning-applications and search application number P22/05778/R3F for full details.

(Some people seem able to link directly to these things; I've never managed to work out how it's done!)
I think a significant majority of local authority planning sites don’t allow linking directly to application pages and documents, or they leave you with cookies to allow you yourself to get back directly, but that doesn’t help anyone else. It’s probably done so you can’t bypass the terms and conditions page, where you often need to tick a box. I usually just post the planning application reference number and leave it at that.


Title: Re: Charfield reopening?
Post by: Noggin on October 06, 2022, 15:25:15
This may be of interest, I think Gareth Dennis and a few others would have something to say about the sleeper spacing in the video ;-)

https://beta.southglos.gov.uk/charfield-train-station (https://beta.southglos.gov.uk/charfield-train-station)

Does anyone know when the half-hourly stopping service on the line might come to pass?


Title: Re: Charfield reopening?
Post by: grahame on February 23, 2023, 22:57:20
From Bristol Live (https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/new-train-station-south-gloucestershire-8182016)

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Planners could give the go-ahead for a new train station in a village in South Gloucestershire next week. Charfield lies on the railway running from Bristol to Gloucester but has been left without a station for almost 60 years, although that could soon change.

The £22-million station would be built off Station Road in the centre of the village, with two platforms, a pedestrian footbridge, a bus stop, covered cycle parking, and car parking. The village’s old train station shut in 1965 as part of the Beeching cuts, when many stations across the country closed.


Title: Re: Charfield reopening?
Post by: chuffed on February 24, 2023, 12:34:45
A date was mentioned as being operational by the end of 2024! .How does Charfield reopening circumvent the much derided GRIP process??
If only Port Zed was up and running by the end of next year?!


Title: Re: Charfield reopening?
Post by: Red Squirrel on March 02, 2023, 16:47:46
I’m told that South Glos have just granted Planning Permission for Charfield Station.

Keep ‘em coming!


Title: Re: Charfield reopening?
Post by: Red Squirrel on March 04, 2023, 09:37:04
I’m told that South Glos have just granted Planning Permission for Charfield Station.

...or not quite: From Gazette Series:

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Update on Charfield train station

3rd March By Alex Seabrook

A new train station in a South Gloucestershire village is about to be given the green light by planners.

But a neighbour living next door to where the station will be built has complained that public announcements from the Tannoy will wake her up every morning.

Construction work could soon begin on the £22-million train station in Charfield, as South Gloucestershire Council is expected to grant planning permission imminently.

The station will run regular passenger trains to Bristol and Gloucester from about 6.30am until 11.30pm.

Transport planners hope the new station, which has been discussed for three decades, will improve access to jobs, education, shops and leisure. Councillors on the strategic sites delivery committee voted to approve planning permission on Thursday, March 2.

But due to a council error with a public consultation, the final decision on granting planning permission will be taken in the next few days.

...continues (https://www.gazetteseries.co.uk/news/23361907.update-charfield-train-station/)


Title: Re: Charfield reopening?
Post by: Red Squirrel on March 07, 2023, 11:56:27
Ah, right, this is more like it:

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LOCATION: Land Off Station Road Charfield South Gloucestershire
DESCRIPTION: Installation of 2 no. platform railway station with station forecourt ((including cycle parking, bus shelter and car parking), erection of pedestrian footbridge and accessible lifts, passenger waiting shelters, creation of car park off Station road, with associated infrastructure and works to Station Road, Wotton Road and Little Bristol Lane.
REFERENCE NO: P22/05778/R3F
With reference to your correspondence this is to inform you that this application has now been considered and the Councils decision is: Approve with Conditions.



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