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Save the Blackdown Vale

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Christopher Bean Verified
2 months ago

Totally destroys the area I chose to live in

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Georgia Richards Verified
2 months ago

Protect our green areas and reduce unwanted traffic and pollution

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Supporter Verified
2 months ago

So much of our land is going to be lost by these greedy builders and shame on the council's for allowing it. It's not right. I will join the fight.

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Alison McGown Verified
2 months ago

Losing an area of natural beauty

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Jenny Bevan Verified
2 months ago

AOB ,green belt. We do not need a 7000 village. There is and cannot be any infrastructure

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Rachel Parish Verified
2 months ago

This is important to support all the residents in the area not just myself there are many areas already being built on

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Max Butcher Verified
2 months ago

They should not be building homes on the vulnerable farmland and the farmers who own it to lose there income and stop growing crops for the uk and there animals

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Sue Hort Verified
2 months ago

Overcrowding and no extra schools ,hospitals,dentists etc. Also the road into Taunton from Orchard Portman will be adversely affected.

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neil roberts Verified
2 months ago

nother 10.000+cars around Taunton.Idon't think so

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Philip Vickery Verified
2 months ago

This Taylor Wimpey money making scheme is manifestly evil and lunatic and needs to be stopped as soon as possible

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Pete Gibbs Verified
2 months ago

Somerset is a beautiful rural county and the proposed 7000 homes will blight the beautiful Blackdown Hills.

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Joe Brookes Verified
2 months ago

Because I live in Shoreditch and it will ruin the countryside,

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Bob Parsons Verified
2 months ago

This land should not have been sold in the first place. The amount of money generated from this will be enormous and it is pure greed by TW. There are enough brown field sites in our county town that need regeneration before we destroy anymore farm land and habitat. The uk roughly loses 76,000 acres of farm land each year to housing and infrastructure projects. We must keep our farm land secure from mass development because this is paramount for food production in these uncertain times.

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Nic Wheeler Verified
2 months ago

As a qualified planner,and former CEO/ head of planning with a local authority, I find this proposal outrageous.This is in effect a completely new town, ignoring basic open countyside/green spaceissues, landscapeand heritage issues relaring to Taunton Vale Taunton town itself, and with no consideration for the traffic implications further into the town. Sevices and schools, ,and good quality etc will be put under strain and good quality agricultural farmland dev oured. The area is also aflood

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Catherine Bone Verified
2 months ago

It's so important to keep nature and farmland

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Jean Newport Verified
2 months ago

Totally disagree with it. It will destroy beautiful countryside and it's inhabitants.

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Sarah Shaylor Verified
2 months ago

The UK is now one of the world's most nature-depleted countries. We should be looking to preserve the greenspaces that we have not contribute further to the problem through urban development.

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Karen RS Verified
2 months ago

West/North of M5 is THE development area - already lost much of it's beauty; has Transport etc established. East/South of M5 is PRIME Agricultural food production land, has proven links BACK TO ROMAN times, home to rare Wildlife, PRIME area for ‘escape to countryside, tranquility’ healthy pursuits. Taunton ALREADY has LOTS 'approved' development land W/N of M5 for the next 20 years but it is NOT being built on-WHY? Plenty Brownfields too. Develope W/North & what’s approved already.

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Mike Emmett Verified
2 months ago

T am completely opposed to this proposed development. There is an ongoing development of 2500 new homes in the Comeytrowe/Trull area of Taunton that followed a similar large property development in the Monkton Heathfield area of Taunton. Where is the actual requirement for an additional 7000 homes in the Taunton area coming from? It would appear that Taylor Wimpey (a large building company) managed to purchase a large plot of prime productive agricultural land (in a previously registered area of

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oli pickles Verified
2 months ago

i can’t live next to that brother