Ruin the natural green spaces that enjoyed by all including Thurlbear School and so many brown sites in Taunton and houses in the town that aren’t selling that need a council or home developers to make them up to today’s standards and be making use of much needed space in the centre of Taunton . The infrastructure in Blackdown vale area is not suitable for development and it floods terribly at the best of times.
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Thomas Larcombe
2 months ago
A residential site of this size will stretch local facilities well beyond breaking point, and the proposed site will cut off ancient woodlands, isolate natural sites and encroach on an area of natural beauty, all of which are crucial to the local environment and local way of life.
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Supporter
2 months ago
I live locally and the area does not have the infrastructure to cope with more housing. The traffic is awful with crashes almost daily on the M5 causing major tailbacks in the surrounding villages and towns.
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Supporter
2 months ago
9,000 houses in a flood plain and no infrastructure. Most homes these days have 2 cars per home so 18,000 extra cars trying to get through the tiny villages
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Miranda Shearer
2 months ago
Because it is next door to my house of 20yrs. It’s countryside that should never have been sold by the crown estate to a developer. It is farmland and surrounding areas are AONB . It is woodland, fields. Taunton does not need any more housing. There are never new schools or medical centres proposed with these ridiculous planning applications. Taunton does not have the infrastructure. This is an absurd number of houses. This land must remain farmland. We are going to need to farm more food.
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Emma Gulliver
2 months ago
We must protect this special ares so close to ANOB
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Laura Nicholls
2 months ago
Save our beautiful countryside
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Sue Heard
2 months ago
Somerset is drowning in residential development. Until Doctors, Dentists and Teachers are encouraged here we have no more capacity
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Supporter
2 months ago
We cannot let this huge area of beautiful countyrside disappear under yet another housing development
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Jane Sharland
2 months ago
Beautiful area which I have spent time in growing up .
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Barrie Yarde
2 months ago
Tragic loss of more green space
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Des Fletcher
2 months ago
Dont let them destroy this beautiful part of somereet
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Supporter
2 months ago
Very important not just for me who lives in the area but for the farmers and all the wildlife which will dissapear never to come back. This is a wonderful area of natural beauty, we do NOT need 9000 houses and a new town.
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Sue Whitehouse
2 months ago
Develope brown sites not green fields n country side
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Adrienne Young
2 months ago
Too many new houses being built in this beautiful county, without enough forethought. By this, I mean already there’s a huge strain on public services such as schools, doctors and dentists. A lot of the proposed changes are developments on areas where there are natural water sources, therefore attracting wildlife and biodiversity. These should be protected. We are seeing flooding in areas we didn’t previously, combined with radically reduced water levels in summer, which should be considered.
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Samantha Christie
2 months ago
The land and its natural beauty should be preserved not built on.
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Glenda Tether
2 months ago
This development cannot go ahead. We are so proud to have small villages and the Blackdown Hills surrounding Taunton providing a much valued green space for all. We need to keep wildlife, ancient trees and green as much as we can.
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Chris Kilby
2 months ago
So disappointing this has even been suggested
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Dennis Kavanagh
2 months ago
Taunton is already rapidly being over developed. This proposed development will devastated our rural areas of natural beauty. Taunton has already been overrun with traffic, schools overcrowded. Hospital waiting times ridiculously increased. Sanitation services and water supplies higely impacted.
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Eliza Sackett
2 months ago
1. Devastation of countryside 2. Splitting Taunton up 3. We need council houses on brownfield sites
Ruin the natural green spaces that enjoyed by all including Thurlbear School and so many brown sites in Taunton and houses in the town that aren’t selling that need a council or home developers to make them up to today’s standards and be making use of much needed space in the centre of Taunton . The infrastructure in Blackdown vale area is not suitable for development and it floods terribly at the best of times.
A residential site of this size will stretch local facilities well beyond breaking point, and the proposed site will cut off ancient woodlands, isolate natural sites and encroach on an area of natural beauty, all of which are crucial to the local environment and local way of life.
I live locally and the area does not have the infrastructure to cope with more housing. The traffic is awful with crashes almost daily on the M5 causing major tailbacks in the surrounding villages and towns.
9,000 houses in a flood plain and no infrastructure. Most homes these days have 2 cars per home so 18,000 extra cars trying to get through the tiny villages
Because it is next door to my house of 20yrs. It’s countryside that should never have been sold by the crown estate to a developer. It is farmland and surrounding areas are AONB . It is woodland, fields. Taunton does not need any more housing. There are never new schools or medical centres proposed with these ridiculous planning applications. Taunton does not have the infrastructure. This is an absurd number of houses. This land must remain farmland. We are going to need to farm more food.
We must protect this special ares so close to ANOB
Save our beautiful countryside
Somerset is drowning in residential development. Until Doctors, Dentists and Teachers are encouraged here we have no more capacity
We cannot let this huge area of beautiful countyrside disappear under yet another housing development
Beautiful area which I have spent time in growing up .
Tragic loss of more green space
Dont let them destroy this beautiful part of somereet
Very important not just for me who lives in the area but for the farmers and all the wildlife which will dissapear never to come back. This is a wonderful area of natural beauty, we do NOT need 9000 houses and a new town.
Develope brown sites not green fields n country side
Too many new houses being built in this beautiful county, without enough forethought. By this, I mean already there’s a huge strain on public services such as schools, doctors and dentists. A lot of the proposed changes are developments on areas where there are natural water sources, therefore attracting wildlife and biodiversity. These should be protected. We are seeing flooding in areas we didn’t previously, combined with radically reduced water levels in summer, which should be considered.
The land and its natural beauty should be preserved not built on.
This development cannot go ahead. We are so proud to have small villages and the Blackdown Hills surrounding Taunton providing a much valued green space for all. We need to keep wildlife, ancient trees and green as much as we can.
So disappointing this has even been suggested
Taunton is already rapidly being over developed. This proposed development will devastated our rural areas of natural beauty. Taunton has already been overrun with traffic, schools overcrowded. Hospital waiting times ridiculously increased. Sanitation services and water supplies higely impacted.
1. Devastation of countryside 2. Splitting Taunton up 3. We need council houses on brownfield sites