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Gloucestershire Gateway
From Motorway Services Online
| Gloucestershire Gateway | |
| Westmorland | |
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| Road: | M5 between J11a and J12 |
| Address: | Land Between Junction 11A And 12 Of The M5 Brookthorpe Stroud Gloucestershire (Google Maps link) |
| Telephone number: | 01213 089570 |
| Signposted from the road? | It will be |
| Opened: | 2011 |
| Grid reference: | SO844133 |
| Services type: | Two sites located between junctions, with no public connection between them. |
Visit Gloucestershire Gateway's official website Opposition Group | |
A new proposed service area on the M5, being put forward by Westmorland, owners of the popular Tebay services. They are working with a local charity, the Gloucestershire Gateway Trust, to design a site that is supposed to be both environmentally friendly and reflect the local area.
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The services are very unpopular with local residents as this is an area of outstanding natural beauty and may have archaeological deposits beneath the proposed site. Despite this, the residents trust for one of the nearby communities in Matson have said that they support the services and think they will benefit the area.
The Highways Agency have revealed that they think the services don't have enough parking spaces, and that the services' aim to specialise in local produce could make it "a destination in its own right".
A previous service area was proposed here by RoadChef in 1994 but it was overthrown. It'll cost around £30million and create 300 jobs, and if built it's thought it will be one of the most pleasant service stations around. Like Tebay, Westmorland say they will use local produce.
It's not yet known whether the services would be opened under this name or not.
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