KEY council meetings are looming which will shape the Stroud district for the next 20 years.
The meetings of the Stroud District Council's environment committee and of its strategy and resources committee on July 8 and 10 will discuss the area's future housing land allocations.
But it will be the full council on July 25 which will make a firm decision on which sites to include in its next Local Plan.
Peter Edis-Bates from the Don't Strangle Stroud action group is opposed to 1,500 homes West of Stonehouse, the so-called Westington development.
"This is Stroud's biggest decision in 20 years," he said.
"The debate will decide between regenerating large brown field sites in Stroud town centre and Sharpness or building another dormitory estate on green field land."
At its latest planning advisory panel, the council listed Westington as only contingency land if the total of other housing sites around the district was not accepted by a government inspector at a public inquiry. The Stroud Local Plan is expected to move to that inquiry stage next spring.
