:00:11. > :00:13.Our headlines tonight. for the news where you are.
:00:14. > :00:15.Facing the man who killed her boyfriend.
:00:16. > :00:23.Meg Williamson wants to highlight the dangers of phoning and driving.
:00:24. > :00:40.Could the new metro mayor loosen the rules
:00:41. > :00:44.And winter hasn't quite done with us yet.
:00:45. > :00:46.The threat of icy stretches on roads by tomorrow morning.
:00:47. > :01:00.A Swindon woman has met the man who caused the car crash
:01:01. > :01:04.Gavin Roberts died last June, when a car ploughed into his -
:01:05. > :01:06.the driver was on the phone at the time.
:01:07. > :01:08.Well, Meg Williamson now wants to highlight the dangers
:01:09. > :01:11.of using a phone while driving and is determined to make sure other
:01:12. > :01:17.This is the moment that Meg Williamson came face
:01:18. > :01:22.to face with the man who killed her boyfriend.
:01:23. > :01:36.Lewis Stratford caused a car crash while talking on his mobile phone.
:01:37. > :01:38.He was an Australian living in Swindon.
:01:39. > :01:41.In June last year he was driving to work on the A34.
:01:42. > :01:44.Lewis Stratford was driving the other way arguing on the phone
:01:45. > :01:47.He lost control, went through the central
:01:48. > :01:54.I wish I could turn back time, change, obviously,
:01:55. > :02:01.I feel like I've been kept here to pay for the mistake I made.
:02:02. > :02:09.For Meg, it was important for the meeting to take place.
:02:10. > :02:12.What possessed him to pick up his mobile phone behind the wheel?
:02:13. > :02:31.And to let him know how I'm feeling, how Gavin's family are feeling.
:02:32. > :02:33.I'll never forget it, ever, and I'll never be sorry
:02:34. > :02:37.Every time I say sorry, I'm thinking it's a bit cheap.
:02:38. > :03:04.I, I don't want to hate you forever, I'm not that type of person.
:03:05. > :03:10.And eventually I'll probably be able to forgive you.
:03:11. > :03:19.But I just needed some questions answering first.
:03:20. > :03:22.Lewis pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving.
:03:23. > :03:30.She now wants all school children to be taught about the dangers
:03:31. > :03:39.Police divers searching for a missing Bristol man have found
:03:40. > :03:45.26-year-old Lewis Ball hadn't been seen since the 5th of February,
:03:46. > :03:50.The police say that the body has yet to be formally identified,
:03:51. > :03:58.but that Lewis' family have been told.
:03:59. > :04:00.Now could green belt land be the answer to the West's
:04:01. > :04:04.Well a thinktank called the Centre for Cities admits
:04:05. > :04:07.it's controversial - but it wants the area's
:04:08. > :04:13.new Metro mayor to consider building more homes on green fields.
:04:14. > :04:15.Housing will be one of the Metro mayor's
:04:16. > :04:17.key responsibilities when he or she is elected in May.
:04:18. > :04:23.House prices soared 10% last year alone.
:04:24. > :04:30.But is it pricing people out of living here altogether?
:04:31. > :04:34.She used to work part-time for the council.
:04:35. > :04:39.A sharp rise in rents means she can no longer afford to make ends meet,
:04:40. > :04:47.It's a real bad divide between people who were able to buy,
:04:48. > :04:52.you know, a couple of decades ago, and people who now can't
:04:53. > :04:55.afford to buy and they're priced out of renting.
:04:56. > :04:57.The four local councils have all pledged to up
:04:58. > :05:02.They're aiming for another 85,000 in the next 20 years.
:05:03. > :05:06.It's the equivalent of building two cities the size of Bath.
:05:07. > :05:09.But a new report says even that doesn't come close and it's time
:05:10. > :05:12.to start thinking what some say is unthinkable and build
:05:13. > :05:18.We think it has to be one of the options on the table.
:05:19. > :05:21.Actually, the West of England is quite unusual that much
:05:22. > :05:23.of the brownfield land that is available is quite small
:05:24. > :05:28.So about 4300 houses could be built on brownfield land.
:05:29. > :05:31.Clearly that's nowhere near what's needed.
:05:32. > :05:34.She thinks building on the green belt should be considered,
:05:35. > :05:36.as it takes up half of South Gloucestershire
:05:37. > :05:39.and over two thirds of Bath and North East Somerset.
:05:40. > :05:51.And it's not always glorious rolling hills.
:05:52. > :05:53.A lot of green-belt land is low landscape value,
:05:54. > :05:57.it's not a high-quality environmental value,
:05:58. > :06:03.but because it's called green belt politicians really run scared of it.
:06:04. > :06:05.We were looking at the maps on the walls, and Mary's house
:06:06. > :06:08.was under a warehouse, and my farm was completely
:06:09. > :06:12.Any talk of building on protected land, though,
:06:13. > :06:20.All this, every bit of green you can see before your eyes is green belt.
:06:21. > :06:23.Farmer Jill Britton and her neighbour Mary Walsh have fought off
:06:24. > :06:25.developers from Whitchurch, south of Bristol, before.
:06:26. > :06:29.With 3500 homes in the planning pipeline, they're preparing
:06:30. > :06:36.Well, if they want to label me a Nimby, so be it.
:06:37. > :06:39.I can cope with it, I've got broad shoulders.
:06:40. > :06:42.But I love my farm and I want it to stay as a farm.
:06:43. > :06:45.We've been told we're Lambys, looking after my backyard.
:06:46. > :06:51.Nimbys, Lambys - whatever the terminology,
:06:52. > :06:55.the debate is set to hot up, as pressure grows on the Metro Mayor
:06:56. > :07:02.elected in May to put house building at the top of the to-do list.
:07:03. > :07:04.Well James Petherick works for an organisation that advises
:07:05. > :07:09.house-builders on how to put forward plans to build on green belt land.
:07:10. > :07:15.I asked him if more developments ought to be allowed.
:07:16. > :07:18.I think it will be increasingly necessary to look at green belt land
:07:19. > :07:20.as a way of relieving the housing shortage.
:07:21. > :07:24.Do you feel an element of sympathy for people who do try and campaign
:07:25. > :07:28.against building on what they see is land that should be protected?
:07:29. > :07:33.But not all of green belt land is beautiful, rolling hills.
:07:34. > :07:37.There's some pretty low great land that could be used to relieve
:07:38. > :07:49.For example land that probably couldn't be used
:07:50. > :07:52.It may have pylons, it may have once been polluted.
:07:53. > :07:55.The green belt in Bristol was drawn up and allocated in 1974,
:07:56. > :08:01.So we're very much hemmed in by green belt.
:08:02. > :08:03.As you say, there a population growth, but there's also a lot
:08:04. > :08:06.of properties that are not really housing people, they're boarded up.
:08:07. > :08:11.That would only be a very small percentage of the houses we need.
:08:12. > :08:14.We need up to 100,000 new houses over the next 20 years.
:08:15. > :08:19.Which can't be provided through vacant property.
:08:20. > :08:24.So you advise property developers on how to best tackle the councils
:08:25. > :08:42.It's incredibly difficult to build on green belt
:08:43. > :08:45.The strategy would involve looking at local plans which set out how
:08:46. > :08:48.many houses and where they're going to be built in each
:08:49. > :08:51.When they're redrawn periodically, and looking at strategically
:08:52. > :08:53.altering the green belt to allow more housing.
:08:54. > :08:55.So basically, making it easier for them.
:08:56. > :08:58.Do you think in the future it's going to become much easier
:08:59. > :09:03.We cannot satisfy the housing need purely on Brownfield sites
:09:04. > :09:07.We have to look at not getting rid of green belt,
:09:08. > :09:09.but just strategically reviewing it to see if there's any
:09:10. > :09:13.land that could be used for new residential housing.
:09:14. > :09:19.You say not getting rid of it, but there won't be any
:09:20. > :09:21.There's a huge amount of green belt land.
:09:22. > :09:23.There's more green belt than built-up areas.
:09:24. > :09:26.And therefore, we could look at a very small proportion,
:09:27. > :09:30.could help deliver those 100,000 plus homes we need over
:09:31. > :09:48.We're back tomorrow morning with the breakfast news.
:09:49. > :09:54.A number of showers around, particularly in western areas
:09:55. > :09:59.With a cold night in store, there will be a risk of some
:10:00. > :10:02.Tomorrow will be chilly, it will be turning windy throughout
:10:03. > :10:07.As we head into the second half of the day, this
:10:08. > :10:13.Of again seeing some showery outbreaks of rain.
:10:14. > :10:15.We have a Met Office warning out tonight and stretching
:10:16. > :10:18.on into tomorrow morning for the risk of some ice
:10:19. > :10:21.That'll be a combination of showers falling of both rain,
:10:22. > :10:24.some hail and in some places perhaps some sleet and snow
:10:25. > :10:27.But either way, temperatures somewhere close to freezing
:10:28. > :10:30.or indeed just below, there will certainly be a cold start
:10:31. > :10:33.That said, it looks largely dry and certainly a bright start.
:10:34. > :10:38.Through lunchtime, in runs another frontal system,
:10:39. > :10:42.Most of that looks like it will be of rain, maybe a little bit
:10:43. > :10:46.Through the afternoon, some further showers continuing
:10:47. > :10:49.You will see the wind speed ticking round here,
:10:50. > :10:52.it will be turning quite windy through the second half of the day.
:10:53. > :10:54.Now, it will exacerbate an already cold feel,
:10:55. > :10:56.temperatures generally about six to eight degrees.
:10:57. > :11:05.A quiet start to Wednesday, some rain moving through the afternoon.
:11:06. > :11:07.John Hammond has the weather for the rest of the