Save the Blackdown Vale

Chantal Baxendale

We moved here to be surrounded by the country, not more houses! Protect the green space and animal habitat!

Lee Grant

I live in the local beautiful village and I'm against this house building as it will destroy the hole area just to make way for the government to house illegal immigrants plus Taunton dies not need any more housing this town is getting d Ruined by constant building on green land.

Emma Turner

I live in the beautiful village of Stoke st Mary and this will destroy it and it’s stunning surroundings

Gill Jeffrey

This development is too large for the infrastructure that will surround it. There is no plan for additional roads, hospitals or jobs for additional 16,000 people. This is an area of AONB and should not be considered for this scale of development.

Andrea Stout

We must protect and preserve prime farm land to grow more food and import less

Caroline Kittow

Valuable farm land and natural beauty. Ecological important

J Lott

Plenty of brownfield sites. Proposal has low population density

Supporter

There has been enough desecration of our beautiful countryside and wildlife by building soulless estates. Brownfield and existing buildings should be used to convert to housing.

Caroline Wiles

The existing infrastructure, doctors and dentists surgeries, blue light, hospitals, and schools cannot cope with the population now. The proposed site is green field

Deborah Booth

Building in and around Taunton is now completely out of hand fuelled by money and greed, our beautiful town, countryside and even County is being violated and destroyed. It breaks my heart.

Paul Kingston

This should not go ahead. Putting profit over the countryside

Timothy Paris

It will destroy the beautiful countryside and there isn't sufficient infrastructure in the area, roads nedical facilities, schools etc. to support such a massive development.

nicola wells

This an outstanding area of natural beauty, with diverse wildlife and countryside: snakes, bats, deer , foxes , doormice , miles of hedgerows : so many supposedly protected species . Develop brown sites / empty houses and shops ( Taunton has enough of them). This landscape is irreplaceable, dont turn it into concrete and astro turf just to line pockets. How the Crown headed by someone supposedly into conservation has sold to developers is beyond me .

Rob Blackwell

Enough is enough

Simon Briggs

This is much too big a development in totally the wrong place. 1600 houses are being constructed in Staplegrove and the village will never be the same!

Karen Thomas

This area is so beautiful. We cannot lose it, the wildlife depends on it. To build here would be an absolute disgrace

Stephanie Mogg

We don’t want more housing built on green land.

Karen Northwood

Greedy developer wants to destroy a National landscape with a new “village” the size of Wellington. Hands off our Blackdown Vale!

Jill Engert

The motorway should be the absolute boundary for the development of Taunton. The Blackdown Hills with itheir very special features & the views towards them should be preserved at all costs

Karen Marks

Completely unnecessary over development of the south west.