• Sedgemoor District Council has approved Gravity’s plans to provide safe, sustainable connections between Puriton and Woolavington
• Gravity’s plans for a farmstead of six low-carbon homes at Knowle Hill will be submitted to Sedgemoor District Council early in the new year
• Community salutes link road roundabout ‘smiley man’
• Gravity welcomes the launch of the Somerset-wide Climate Emergency Strategy, developed by the county’s five councils
• Gravity’s pioneering sustainable materials management strategy is guiding the construction of the link road
• Gravity’s chairman Martin Bellamy explains why a post-coronavirus green recovery is so important to the South West at a national webinar
• Gravity is championing its ‘smart campus’ as a UK destination for inward investment and a key flagship project in the South West with a wealth of activity, including participation in discussions hosted by the Western Gateway and Business West and overseas activity with Department for International Trade.

Despite the challenges we, like everyone, have faced in 2020, this has also been a year of fantastic progress for Gravity. We have been relentless in our pursuit of transforming our vision of a smart campus that offers a blueprint for a cleaner, smarter future into a reality.

Our proposals will be set out in a Local Development Order (LDO), which is simply another form of planning permission. An LDO sets overall standards and guidelines for a complex development, which helps create more certainty about what the site will offer. Our LDO proposal will evolve during 2021, including a formal public consultation.

We have also made good progress on the link road – a key access road that will link Gravity to the A39, which connects to Junction 23 of the M5. The new road is the first key step in bringing Gravity forward and will be open in the spring of 2021.

2020 has also seen us draw up our plan for a farmstead of six homes at Knowle Hill near Puriton. These high energy performance, low-carbon homes demonstrate our commitment towards creating a cleaner and more sustainable future.

We are looking forward to another year full of progress. 2021 will see us work with our partners to collaborate with, and support, Sedgemoor District Council to adopt the LDO. This will represent an important milestone, enabling us to support the government’s marketing of the Gravity Enterprise Zone to investors from across the world. Somerset will be at the heart of a green economic recovery, accelerating positive action to address climate change.

Please read on for a summary of our key news. Finally, we hope you have a merry Christmas and a happy and healthy New Year.

Collaborating with the community is of paramount importance to us at Gravity! We were incredibly honoured to support the amazing efforts of the local community in delivering over 7,000 free meals earlier this year.

Part of our commitment to working with the community has been to enlist the support of locally based consultation experts Social. You are welcome to contact the Social team with any questions about how the consultation process will work at gravity@social.co.uk or call 0330 1070 353. Further information on how you can get involved will follow in the New Year.

For any queries or further information on the Gravity consultation and local engagement, please reply to this email or contact:

Social
0330 1070 353
gravity@social.co.uk

For information or queries on the Link Road, please contact:

Paul Lowndes, Programme Director
07825 037 770
p.lowndes@thisisgravity.co.uk

For marketing and communications queries, please contact: info@thisisgravity.co.uk

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