Westbury Transport Group
(Page Updated May 11th 2026)
The Story so far…
WoTSoc took over the oversight of transport and traffic issues in Westbury on Trym in January, 2026. They are a key part of our mission to support and further the Village’s vitality, distinctive character and environment, as a place to live in, do business in and visit. But WoTSoc is the just latest such ‘overseer’, and this part of our website records this longer endeavour.
Our library contains a number of surveys and reports, carried out over several years. These documents can be viewed HERE, or by clicking on the references in the following text.
WoTSoc took over the oversight of transport and traffic issues in Westbury on Trym in January, 2026. They are a key part of our mission to support and further the Village’s vitality, distinctive character and environment, as a place to live in, do business in and visit. But WoTSoc is the just latest such ‘overseer’, and this part of our website records this longer endeavour.
Our library contains a number of surveys and reports, carried out over several years. These documents can be viewed HERE, or by clicking on the references in the following text.
The first section - Bristol City Council – covers its city-wide network of Neighbourhood Partnerships (NPs), whereby Councillors, public bodies, local residents and volunteer groups came together with delegated authority over certain budgets, including minor traffic proposals. In our particular Partnership, Westbury on Trym ward was combined with those of Stoke Bishop and Henleaze. Some of the WoT traffic reports it produced are very much still live issues for the Village, such as the sequence of A4018 traffic lights, both proposed and existing, between Greystoke Avenue and Stoke Lane (see section 1.1).
The NPs were disbanded in 2017. Two years later the Council produced its bombshell transport/traffic proposals for our local stretch of the A4018 and the Village itself, as part of its response to the ongoing major expansion of housing just over Bristol/S.Glos boundary, on the former Filton Airfield – the so-named Cribbs Patchway New Neighbourhood (CPNN). The Council reasonably assumed this would generate a parallel traffic boost to and from the city itself. However, while commendable in principle, many of the specific proposals were highly contentious, particularly those for the Village proper, and were soundly rejected at the resulting public consultation (see 1.2). The Council said it would come back with revised proposals in due course. We’re still waiting.
Finally, the Council proposed introducing parking charges at several of its hitherto free-to-use car parks, include Westbury Hill (see 1.3) This has led to further critical surveys and objections from the Village, as covered in the other two sections.
The second section covers transport oversight from the local Transport and Placemaking Group (TPM), set up in the aftermath of the 2019 kerfuffle. This was an entirely unofficial, volunteer group of local residents with personal and professional transport and planning interests, as convened by Alan Morris. Its principal intention was to identify and assess some alternative, better-informed and locally-rooted transport proposals, in response to the same S. Glos housing expansion. It ran a series of surveys of local opinion and produced a further suite of reports and documents, before issuing its final report, in December, 2025 (see 2.1). This brought together its suggestions for a coherent and coordinated set of actions to try to meet three central objectives, all sensible in themselves but sometimes in tension when seen collectively. TPM also established constructive relations with the relevant traffic officers in the Council, who it kept abreast of its thinking and to whom it sent its final report. Hopefully, these positive links will be maintained when Bristol returns to consider the WoT issues and proposals consequent on the CPNN project, aborted back in 2019.
A sub-group of TPM also produced a set of proposals to improve pedestrian movement and safety within the Village centre (see 2.2).
Finally, TPM also undertook parking surveys around the Village, detailing occupancy levels on Westbury Hill, to complement one from WoTSoc, which reported on the reasons for visiting the Village given by those parking there (see 2.3 and 3.1).
Its work done, TPM was disbanded at the end of 2025, and WoTSoc took over the reins of transport oversight, seeing this as a crucial part of its overall mission and also one with unfinished business as the CPNN project gathers pace. It has set up a new sub-group for this purpose, drawn from its own Committee, from the previous TPM and from other interested WoTSoc members.
Current plans are for a core ‘group’, which meets regularly in person, with a wider corresponding ‘panel’ kept notified of its business, and able to contribute to it as appropriate. Its operating ‘rules’ and ‘scope’ are now agreed and it has already been active in two ongoing transport areas.
First, based on a further ‘usage’ survey, it challenged the Council’s Traffic Regulation Order (TRO), of December, 2025 (see 3.1). Second, and based on previous work by the TPM, it bid under the 2026 annual Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) programme to fund and install the ‘missing’ zebra crossing at the War Memorial roundabout, on the Stoke Lane entry/exit.
Looking further ahead, WoTSoc hopes to be constructively involved in future consultation over the next phase of the A4018/CPNN response and also with other transport initiatives elsewhere in Bristol that the Council might decide to migrate to our locality, such as Residents’ Parking Zones and ‘Liveable Neighbourhoods’. There are likely to be other transport-related initiatives and surveys that we decide to run, such as on vehicle emission pollution, and we’ll contribute the possible reconfiguration of the Canford Lane/Falcondale Road lights, soon due for replacement. Plus, of course, relevant transport issues local residents feel need prioritising.
But it’s early days for this third and latest oversight phase, and we’ll update this website as we move forward, including continuing to post relevant documents and reports here.
In the meanwhile, if you want to contact us please email Tony Hoare (a.g.hoare@gmail/com), the interim convenor of the sub-group.
AGH, May 2026.
The NPs were disbanded in 2017. Two years later the Council produced its bombshell transport/traffic proposals for our local stretch of the A4018 and the Village itself, as part of its response to the ongoing major expansion of housing just over Bristol/S.Glos boundary, on the former Filton Airfield – the so-named Cribbs Patchway New Neighbourhood (CPNN). The Council reasonably assumed this would generate a parallel traffic boost to and from the city itself. However, while commendable in principle, many of the specific proposals were highly contentious, particularly those for the Village proper, and were soundly rejected at the resulting public consultation (see 1.2). The Council said it would come back with revised proposals in due course. We’re still waiting.
Finally, the Council proposed introducing parking charges at several of its hitherto free-to-use car parks, include Westbury Hill (see 1.3) This has led to further critical surveys and objections from the Village, as covered in the other two sections.
The second section covers transport oversight from the local Transport and Placemaking Group (TPM), set up in the aftermath of the 2019 kerfuffle. This was an entirely unofficial, volunteer group of local residents with personal and professional transport and planning interests, as convened by Alan Morris. Its principal intention was to identify and assess some alternative, better-informed and locally-rooted transport proposals, in response to the same S. Glos housing expansion. It ran a series of surveys of local opinion and produced a further suite of reports and documents, before issuing its final report, in December, 2025 (see 2.1). This brought together its suggestions for a coherent and coordinated set of actions to try to meet three central objectives, all sensible in themselves but sometimes in tension when seen collectively. TPM also established constructive relations with the relevant traffic officers in the Council, who it kept abreast of its thinking and to whom it sent its final report. Hopefully, these positive links will be maintained when Bristol returns to consider the WoT issues and proposals consequent on the CPNN project, aborted back in 2019.
A sub-group of TPM also produced a set of proposals to improve pedestrian movement and safety within the Village centre (see 2.2).
Finally, TPM also undertook parking surveys around the Village, detailing occupancy levels on Westbury Hill, to complement one from WoTSoc, which reported on the reasons for visiting the Village given by those parking there (see 2.3 and 3.1).
Its work done, TPM was disbanded at the end of 2025, and WoTSoc took over the reins of transport oversight, seeing this as a crucial part of its overall mission and also one with unfinished business as the CPNN project gathers pace. It has set up a new sub-group for this purpose, drawn from its own Committee, from the previous TPM and from other interested WoTSoc members.
Current plans are for a core ‘group’, which meets regularly in person, with a wider corresponding ‘panel’ kept notified of its business, and able to contribute to it as appropriate. Its operating ‘rules’ and ‘scope’ are now agreed and it has already been active in two ongoing transport areas.
First, based on a further ‘usage’ survey, it challenged the Council’s Traffic Regulation Order (TRO), of December, 2025 (see 3.1). Second, and based on previous work by the TPM, it bid under the 2026 annual Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) programme to fund and install the ‘missing’ zebra crossing at the War Memorial roundabout, on the Stoke Lane entry/exit.
Looking further ahead, WoTSoc hopes to be constructively involved in future consultation over the next phase of the A4018/CPNN response and also with other transport initiatives elsewhere in Bristol that the Council might decide to migrate to our locality, such as Residents’ Parking Zones and ‘Liveable Neighbourhoods’. There are likely to be other transport-related initiatives and surveys that we decide to run, such as on vehicle emission pollution, and we’ll contribute the possible reconfiguration of the Canford Lane/Falcondale Road lights, soon due for replacement. Plus, of course, relevant transport issues local residents feel need prioritising.
But it’s early days for this third and latest oversight phase, and we’ll update this website as we move forward, including continuing to post relevant documents and reports here.
In the meanwhile, if you want to contact us please email Tony Hoare (a.g.hoare@gmail/com), the interim convenor of the sub-group.
AGH, May 2026.
