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.
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Caroline Wiles
2 months ago
The existing infrastructure, doctors and dentists surgeries, blue light, hospitals, and schools cannot cope with the population now. The proposed site is green field
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Deborah Booth
2 months ago
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.
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Paul Kingston
2 months ago
This should not go ahead. Putting profit over the countryside
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Timothy Paris
2 months ago
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.
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nicola wells
2 months ago
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 .
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Rob Blackwell
2 months ago
Enough is enough
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Simon Briggs
2 months ago
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!
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Karen Thomas
2 months ago
This area is so beautiful. We cannot lose it, the wildlife depends on it. To build here would be an absolute disgrace
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Stephanie Mogg
2 months ago
We don’t want more housing built on green land.
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Karen Northwood
2 months ago
Greedy developer wants to destroy a National landscape with a new “village” the size of Wellington. Hands off our Blackdown Vale!
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Jill Engert
2 months ago
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
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Karen Marks
2 months ago
Completely unnecessary over development of the south west.
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Michael Lowe
2 months ago
It is hard to understand why farmland is being developed whilst large areas of brown sites are still going undeveloped. The damage being caused to our beautiful county by this type of development is unsustainable
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Hayley Watt
2 months ago
I think it’s disgraceful to be even considering building on such a huge area of land. Calling it a ‘garden village’ fools no-one when the plan is for 7000 houses. This area of Taunton is beautiful and offers lovely walks, scenery, wildlife habitat and some well-needed peace for promoting mental health. I’m horrified that this is likely to happen and I just wanted to add my strong shock and dissent.
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Janet Joslin
2 months ago
We have no new plans for water infrastructure to support this. This is the age of climate change, droughts and dwindling water supplies how ridiculous to suggest building more buildings, and escalating what is already a dire situation.
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Mary Flewitt
2 months ago
Somerset does NOT need any more housing developments. It has no infrastructure, depleting wildlife and natural areas, and no job opportunities.
It would be an absolute disgrace if this hideous idea went through, I don’t know of anyone who supports it and is yet again an example of big corporations and developers having no respect or understanding for anything that truly matters on this earth - our natural world.
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Gill Grafton
2 months ago
This is an AONB which we cannot afford to lose. There are many brownfield sites that need to be developed for housing,.
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Josie Smalldon
2 months ago
Because i don't want anymore houses on our lovely green pastures we are spoiling Somerset.
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.
The existing infrastructure, doctors and dentists surgeries, blue light, hospitals, and schools cannot cope with the population now. The proposed site is green field
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.
This should not go ahead. Putting profit over the countryside
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.
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 .
Enough is enough
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!
This area is so beautiful. We cannot lose it, the wildlife depends on it. To build here would be an absolute disgrace
We don’t want more housing built on green land.
Greedy developer wants to destroy a National landscape with a new “village” the size of Wellington. Hands off our Blackdown Vale!
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
Completely unnecessary over development of the south west.
It is hard to understand why farmland is being developed whilst large areas of brown sites are still going undeveloped. The damage being caused to our beautiful county by this type of development is unsustainable
I think it’s disgraceful to be even considering building on such a huge area of land. Calling it a ‘garden village’ fools no-one when the plan is for 7000 houses. This area of Taunton is beautiful and offers lovely walks, scenery, wildlife habitat and some well-needed peace for promoting mental health. I’m horrified that this is likely to happen and I just wanted to add my strong shock and dissent.
We have no new plans for water infrastructure to support this. This is the age of climate change, droughts and dwindling water supplies how ridiculous to suggest building more buildings, and escalating what is already a dire situation.
Somerset does NOT need any more housing developments. It has no infrastructure, depleting wildlife and natural areas, and no job opportunities. It would be an absolute disgrace if this hideous idea went through, I don’t know of anyone who supports it and is yet again an example of big corporations and developers having no respect or understanding for anything that truly matters on this earth - our natural world.
This is an AONB which we cannot afford to lose. There are many brownfield sites that need to be developed for housing,.
Because i don't want anymore houses on our lovely green pastures we are spoiling Somerset.
Because I live here!!