Business West welcomes the continued inclusion of Strategic Employment Locations in the draft Local Plan Issues and Options paper for Bristol Airport and Bristol Port – given the importance of these two locations as regional strategic assets, their underpinning vital importance for local, regional, national and international connectivity and their potential for future employment locations.

Global warming and ice cap melting will increase demand for Port

Airport expansion should be limited at least until such time as better transport links are in place. Therefore Option 1 is the best for now.

"allowances for additional land supply in and around Portishead" should not impinge onto the Green Belt, especially in the vicinity of the Nature Reserve