Firstly, Somerset County Council should seek to exploit the opportunities for brownfield developments within the existing planning curtilage. Secondly, any proposal to develop the former Crown Estates land should be a properly worked up plan addressing upgrades to roads, drainage, amenities (schools, medical centres etc).
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Paul Woolvin
2 months ago
Surely prime agricultural land adjoining an AONB isn't the place for a new town is it.
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Christine Heath
2 months ago
Absolutely not necessary - there must be brown sites and wrong to divide Taunton by the M5
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Nicola Candy
2 months ago
Fed up with greedy developers and lazy governments exploiting our landscape, we have enough houses now.
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Fiona Lazenby
2 months ago
This area is beautiful. Taunton is located in a valley with stunning countryside on all sides. We don’t want any more unattractive housing estates.
Where is the infrastructure? New doctors, extending the hospital, improved access into the town. South Road becomes congested now, without another 7,000+ houses which will probably have two cars per house. Our road system cannot take it.
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Andy Davies
2 months ago
Losing more of our beautiful local unspoilt ( until now ) countryside !!
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T Good
2 months ago
At least 1.5m empty homes in England. And increasing at alarming rates (40 - 1000%, depending on place). Agricultural land is not empty. It is in use. Where does the food go??
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Paul Lanham
2 months ago
Over development is ruining the balance . Organic growth is far better
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Megan Eyre
2 months ago
The loss of such important countryside is unacceptable.
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Elliot Hammett
2 months ago
save the countryside.
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Eddie Scarrott
2 months ago
It will ruin the beautiful countryside
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Jack Rose
2 months ago
It will ruin the countryside
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Anne Davies
2 months ago
The countryside round me has been ruined and Stratford upon Avon is completely unrecognisable. Don’t let another area of beauty in England be ruined by housing. Plenty of brown fill sites around - but not as cheap and easy for the developers
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Nathalie Wiggins
2 months ago
The Blackdowns is an area of outstanding natural beauty and old roads. There is not the infrastructure to cope with this development and it will eat into an ancient and historic landscape
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Charlie Smith
2 months ago
To stop them cutting down Wych to save the bike trail
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Gaynor Lomas
2 months ago
Other places including empty properties and brown field sites should be regenerated. Prime Taunton vale farmland should NOT be used for building anything. This is a beautiful area which I lived and worked in for 18years. Roads not able to take more traffic and not enough infrastructure despite what they claim.
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Sam Cleaver
2 months ago
Me and my friends use the woods and wych lodge as a place to fish and ride our bikes
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Toby
2 months ago
Im signing ts because i like the forest around it and ye
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Shirley Chapman
2 months ago
Why don’t the councils renovate empty large commercial properties in towns where there is an related infrastructure for people, schools hospitals shops etc leave green belts alone
Firstly, Somerset County Council should seek to exploit the opportunities for brownfield developments within the existing planning curtilage. Secondly, any proposal to develop the former Crown Estates land should be a properly worked up plan addressing upgrades to roads, drainage, amenities (schools, medical centres etc).
Surely prime agricultural land adjoining an AONB isn't the place for a new town is it.
Absolutely not necessary - there must be brown sites and wrong to divide Taunton by the M5
Fed up with greedy developers and lazy governments exploiting our landscape, we have enough houses now.
This area is beautiful. Taunton is located in a valley with stunning countryside on all sides. We don’t want any more unattractive housing estates. Where is the infrastructure? New doctors, extending the hospital, improved access into the town. South Road becomes congested now, without another 7,000+ houses which will probably have two cars per house. Our road system cannot take it.
Losing more of our beautiful local unspoilt ( until now ) countryside !!
At least 1.5m empty homes in England. And increasing at alarming rates (40 - 1000%, depending on place). Agricultural land is not empty. It is in use. Where does the food go??
Over development is ruining the balance . Organic growth is far better
The loss of such important countryside is unacceptable.
save the countryside.
It will ruin the beautiful countryside
It will ruin the countryside
The countryside round me has been ruined and Stratford upon Avon is completely unrecognisable. Don’t let another area of beauty in England be ruined by housing. Plenty of brown fill sites around - but not as cheap and easy for the developers
The Blackdowns is an area of outstanding natural beauty and old roads. There is not the infrastructure to cope with this development and it will eat into an ancient and historic landscape
To stop them cutting down Wych to save the bike trail
Other places including empty properties and brown field sites should be regenerated. Prime Taunton vale farmland should NOT be used for building anything. This is a beautiful area which I lived and worked in for 18years. Roads not able to take more traffic and not enough infrastructure despite what they claim.
Me and my friends use the woods and wych lodge as a place to fish and ride our bikes
Im signing ts because i like the forest around it and ye
Why don’t the councils renovate empty large commercial properties in towns where there is an related infrastructure for people, schools hospitals shops etc leave green belts alone
We live in Corfe and too close