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
3 months ago
Ruination of beautiful green countryside
Why not brown field sites?
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Sarah Driver
3 months ago
Totally inappropriate development which will devastate a rural countryside and communities.
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Julia Tonks
3 months 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
3 months 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
3 months ago
We need to save the Blackdown Vale.
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Alan Harford
3 months 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
3 months 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
3 months 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
3 months ago
Protect AONBs. Develop in brown field sites.
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GILLIAN WHATMORE
3 months 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
3 months ago
Over development and effect on rural community and environment
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Neil Jones
3 months 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
3 months 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
3 months ago
We can't keep 'eating' into our land.
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Richard Miles
3 months ago
This would ruin an area of great beauty. Don’t do it please!
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Jennifer Wright
3 months ago
I’m Somerset born and bred and refuse to let developers spoil our beautiful countryside.
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Maria Anderson
3 months ago
This is an area of outstanding natural beauty with wildlife all around us . Some areas needs to be protected and this is one of them . It would be devastating and change this beautiful landscape forever.
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Emily Southall
3 months ago
Absolutely no way. I cannot believe this has been proposed. The property builders will be the only ones benefitting from this utter destruction of Blackdown Vale and must not be permitted under any circumstances.
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Heather Coates
3 months ago
It is enlarging Taunton into fine countryside and destroying heritage sites ie the Polo Ground and the Racecourse.
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.
Ruination of beautiful green countryside Why not brown field sites?
Totally inappropriate development which will devastate a rural countryside and communities.
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.
What is the point in having an AONB if the likes of Taylor Whimpy can just bulldoze it for profit
We need to save the Blackdown Vale.
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.
It is criminal to build on this prime agricultural land. We need to have food security especially as climate change affects food production increasingly.
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.
Protect AONBs. Develop in brown field sites.
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.
Over development and effect on rural community and environment
This is to stop excessive house building on prime farm land; and to preserve our amazingly diverse natural environment 😀
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.
We can't keep 'eating' into our land.
This would ruin an area of great beauty. Don’t do it please!
I’m Somerset born and bred and refuse to let developers spoil our beautiful countryside.
This is an area of outstanding natural beauty with wildlife all around us . Some areas needs to be protected and this is one of them . It would be devastating and change this beautiful landscape forever.
Absolutely no way. I cannot believe this has been proposed. The property builders will be the only ones benefitting from this utter destruction of Blackdown Vale and must not be permitted under any circumstances.
It is enlarging Taunton into fine countryside and destroying heritage sites ie the Polo Ground and the Racecourse.