Precious countryside, saving people, place and planet.
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Ornella Ridge
2 months ago
I don't believe that a new settlement is the answer to the growth demand. Investment in current infrastructure and the development of current settlements of dwellings is possible. This feels like running before we can walk and irresponsible.
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Michael Risebrow
2 months ago
To many houses, making more like a city instead of a market town, and to much traffic.
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A Taylor
2 months ago
Building on food producing farm land is never a good idea
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Supporter
2 months ago
To preserve the natural
world and all it gives us physically and mentally. Build on brownfield sites.
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Maeve Wilson
2 months ago
Our beautiful rural areas are slowly being eroded by massive housing developments. We need to preserve the countryside and the wildlife populations.
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John Bull
2 months ago
Plenty of brownfield sites available. We need our farmland, and natural habitats. We need reservoirs. We need flood defence. We need infrastructure.
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Charlotte Legge
2 months ago
These property developers are just thinking about money / profit. The countryside is important to keep.
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Tracey F
2 months ago
Prime farmland is essential for food security - we will need it in such a volatile world. The AONB and Blackdown Vale is home to such wonderful wildlife and habitats and should be protected. The birth rate is falling so why the need for so many new homes? Keep our green spaces for all to enjoy.
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Vernon Garnham
2 months ago
People need homes near jobs, not Wimpey boxes destroying a classic Somerset landscape
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Sara Potter
2 months ago
I am a local and understand the immense strain this will place on Taunton in terms of facilities.
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Duncan Brown
2 months ago
Too many houses and people with no infrastructure, schools, doctors surgeries, etc. Development on beautiful countryside/green belt for the sake of development. It’s a disgrace.
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Sam Davies
2 months ago
Why are we ruining our precious countryside?
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Jane Btown
2 months ago
The countryside in this area is not meant to be built on. It’s stunning and beautiful. We do not need another town. Roads, school, GP’s etc etc already overrun with people.
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Rachel Drew
2 months ago
It would be a travesty to cover that area of AONB with houses.
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Adam Folkes
2 months ago
Beautiful scenery ruined
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EMMA TURNER
2 months ago
I live in Stoke st Mary and I live here because of its beautiful countryside, wildlife and peace. This development will ruin not only here but the whole of Taunton. Building needs to stop we don’t have the infrastructure to cope with so many or any more houses.
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Janet Penrose
2 months ago
Once the character and nature of this area is lost it is gone forever
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Catherine Harris
2 months ago
This is where I live
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Helen Keeble
2 months ago
This new town is being built on farmland in a rural area. Taylor Wimpy's proposal to leave large areas of the site as green spaces will do little to mitigate the huge impact on the area of 7,000 new homes. The increase in traffic on what are currently quiet country lanes which are used by horse riders, walkers etc will be devastating. The impact on local medical services, pharmacies, dentists etc will be detrimental to local residents this side of Taunton.
Precious countryside, saving people, place and planet.
I don't believe that a new settlement is the answer to the growth demand. Investment in current infrastructure and the development of current settlements of dwellings is possible. This feels like running before we can walk and irresponsible.
To many houses, making more like a city instead of a market town, and to much traffic.
Building on food producing farm land is never a good idea
To preserve the natural world and all it gives us physically and mentally. Build on brownfield sites.
Our beautiful rural areas are slowly being eroded by massive housing developments. We need to preserve the countryside and the wildlife populations.
Plenty of brownfield sites available. We need our farmland, and natural habitats. We need reservoirs. We need flood defence. We need infrastructure.
These property developers are just thinking about money / profit. The countryside is important to keep.
Prime farmland is essential for food security - we will need it in such a volatile world. The AONB and Blackdown Vale is home to such wonderful wildlife and habitats and should be protected. The birth rate is falling so why the need for so many new homes? Keep our green spaces for all to enjoy.
People need homes near jobs, not Wimpey boxes destroying a classic Somerset landscape
I am a local and understand the immense strain this will place on Taunton in terms of facilities.
Too many houses and people with no infrastructure, schools, doctors surgeries, etc. Development on beautiful countryside/green belt for the sake of development. It’s a disgrace.
Why are we ruining our precious countryside?
The countryside in this area is not meant to be built on. It’s stunning and beautiful. We do not need another town. Roads, school, GP’s etc etc already overrun with people.
It would be a travesty to cover that area of AONB with houses.
Beautiful scenery ruined
I live in Stoke st Mary and I live here because of its beautiful countryside, wildlife and peace. This development will ruin not only here but the whole of Taunton. Building needs to stop we don’t have the infrastructure to cope with so many or any more houses.
Once the character and nature of this area is lost it is gone forever
This is where I live
This new town is being built on farmland in a rural area. Taylor Wimpy's proposal to leave large areas of the site as green spaces will do little to mitigate the huge impact on the area of 7,000 new homes. The increase in traffic on what are currently quiet country lanes which are used by horse riders, walkers etc will be devastating. The impact on local medical services, pharmacies, dentists etc will be detrimental to local residents this side of Taunton.