The proposed development would destroy an environmentally and socially sensitive area of Swindon (some twenty times the size of the Princess Margaret Hospital site) adjoining two-thirds of the perimeter of Coate Water Country Park .

This huge green field development has been slipped into the plan as “an urban extension site”! The latest plans show just how damaging this development will be.

Hundreds of people objected to the plans for Coate in January 2004. Despite this, the latest proposed policy changes have done nothing to address public concern about development at Coate. See the objections to the latest proposals. A public inquiry is underway and the dedicated session for examining Local Plan policy matters related to Coate will be discussed on 19 April 2005 at the Pilgrim Centre, Regents Street, Swindon, starting at 10am.

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Save Coate is a coalition of concerned individuals and is supported by the following organisations in and around Swindon: Friends of the Earth, Alliance of Literary Societies, Animal Concern, Campaign to protect Rural England, Friends of Coate Water, Green Party, Greenpeace, Liberal Democrats, Socialist Alliance, Civic Trust, Trade Union Council, Chiseldon Parish Council, Front Garden Action Group, Liddington Parish Council, New Mechanics Institution Preservation Trust, Old Town Group, The Ramblers Association, Richard Jefferies Society, Socialist Party, Swindon Forest Protection Group, Wiltshire Badger Group.