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Save the Blackdown Vale

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David Lowe Verified
1 month ago

Total vandalism of the countryside

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Jill Beglan Verified
1 month ago

Unneccesary destruction of countryside and farming land

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Gillian Meyerdierks Verified
1 month ago

Black down hills are natural beauty and should never be built on

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Jane Lansdell Verified
1 month ago

To protect the impact on the Backdown Hills and the beautiful vale of Taunton

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Supporter Verified
1 month ago

We must not build right next to edge of AONB : there must be border of 2km and a green belt to Taunton. Government housing quotas are not justified and are unsupported by job growth in area and are grotesquely damaging to environment

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Lindsay Blaxland Verified
1 month ago

If we keep putting housing developments on agricultural land we will move further and further from being able to feed the nation and will become increasingly over dependent on imported food. As an island nation this is risky. All these developments also happen without adequate investment in the sewage system or adequate account taken of flood prevention or with sufficient provision for making these homes as environmentally sustainable as possible.

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Linda Birchenough Verified
1 month ago

Ruination of beautiful green countryside Why not brown field sites?

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Sarah Driver Verified
1 month ago

Totally inappropriate development which will devastate a rural countryside and communities.

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Julia Tonks Verified
1 month ago

1. This is prime agricultural land and should be kept as such to continue to provide food for the country. 2. The local infrastructure is already creaking at the seams and cannot support that increased level of houses and people.

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Brett Luffman Verified
1 month ago

What is the point in having an AONB if the likes of Taylor Whimpy can just bulldoze it for profit

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Helen Rogers Verified
1 month ago

We need to save the Blackdown Vale.

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Alan Harford Verified
1 month ago

This is an area that I have visited many times. It’s a stunning area with farm land and wildlife that needs to be kept intact.

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Nicola Baldwin Verified
1 month ago

It is criminal to build on this prime agricultural land. We need to have food security especially as climate change affects food production increasingly.

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Claire Hore Verified
1 month ago

It’s just not right for the area!! Agree with the point that housing growth should be done through organic development and NOT in the form being proposed.

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Katharine Clifford Verified
1 month ago

Protect AONBs. Develop in brown field sites.

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GILLIAN WHATMORE Verified
1 month ago

I have lived in this area all my life and have watched Taunton and it's facilities decline as more and more houses are built. I do not believe we can cope with even more agricultural land being eaten up by housing.

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Stephanie Coates Verified
1 month ago

Over development and effect on rural community and environment

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Neil Jones Verified
1 month ago

This is to stop excessive house building on prime farm land; and to preserve our amazingly diverse natural environment 😀

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Jill Acheson Verified
1 month ago

There is not the infrastructure to support this development. So many people ordinary people can't afford to buy houses now - this development is only lining the pockets of those building it.

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Cheryl Bennet Verified
1 month ago

We can't keep 'eating' into our land.