Bristol City Council has voted to oppose a Government housing plan that sets housing targets for the South West.

The draft regional spatial strategy calls for 592,000 new homes in the region by 2026, something the council feels is totally unrealistic.

A motion by Tory group leader Richard Eddy opposed development on green belt land ahead of brownfield sites.

The three main parties all put forward their own version of the motion, and spent so long talking about it that there was no time to discuss other motions tabled for the meeting.

These included looking at changing Bristol City Council voting patterns to once every four years.

A further motion called for the authority to accept climate change was a reality, and the last was to welcome an investigation by the Office of Fair Trading into local bus monopolies.