Its our local area, beautiful countryside that needs to remain. Our roads are already too busy and cannot handle more traffic.
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Jon James
3 months ago
This development is excessive, there is insufficient infrastructure to support it, and the sale of the land in the first instance, and the price it was sold for, needs investigation. This is scandalous.
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Maddy Hughes
3 months ago
The effect on environment wild life and dreadful damage to the area
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Tracey Rigby
3 months ago
Dont do it
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John Eyers
3 months ago
It will ruin the Blackdown Vale, obliterate villages and will unquestionably be the end of Thurlbear Wood which is a nature reserve and SSSI
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Supporter
3 months ago
I have a place in the Blackdown Hills. The M5 is already too busy around the area. There’s no infrastructure to take this many homes; Taunton itself is already impossible to park in. There’s no mobile phone service on the M5 or anywhere near AONB; the summer traffic is already at peak.
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Janet Marcham
3 months ago
We don’t need 7000 more homes in Taunton
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Miles Watt
3 months ago
An area of outstanding natural beauty. About to be obliterated. No thought for the consequences to the future generations or the wildlife and farming, which is vital to the community. Infrastructure will be minimal at best and roads will become saturated in the surrounding area. Thurlbear will be over run and diminished by this proposed development.
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Kate Campbell
3 months ago
This is good quality farm land
The infrastructure isn't in place to support such a huge development. Hospitals, schools etc
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Emma Bettridge
3 months ago
There isn’t the infrastructure in place to support a massive development such as this one. There aren’t the amenities needed and will kill a large area of natural beauty.
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Rob Bayliss
3 months ago
This is wanton vandalism
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Patsy Giblett
3 months ago
Much too close to ancient woodland and Blackdown AONB. It is essential to protect our woodlands and natural habitats. Taylor Wimpey will only meet the bare essentials of building regs. They are unlikely to take into account current climate change or environmental protection any more than regulations require this will reduce profits for their shareholders.
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Seb Watts
3 months ago
It appears that existing infrastructure has not been considered properly and roads all around will become a chokepoint with insufficient expansion. This will cut me off from my place of work and areas of leisure. Building on mass on the areas of natural beauty should not be permitted as rural areas, greenland's and forests are our only remaining defence against climate change which has become vastly apparent in the extreme weather of 2026.
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Richard Bailey
3 months ago
Taunton Vale is an area of unspoilt countryside with abundant wildlife. Building on this land will destroy this environment for future generations permanently. Taunton is already suffering from over development with congested roads, over subscribed surgeries, dentists and schools. The recent Killams development that was approved on the provision of a school is a case in point, where the local authority reneged and changed the planning after approval to provide PF care home.
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Emma Reeve
3 months ago
It's a beautiful area..
We have had enough of Somerset landscape destroyed.
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Davd Lodge
3 months ago
1. The AONB of Thurlbear Woods and the Blackdowns need side surrounding area of open countryside to survive and develop.
2. Promises, not to develop on the south east side of the M5, should be kept.
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Susan Bannerman
3 months ago
Ridiculous & unnecessary
Destruction of countryside environment & Nature
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Alex Buckley
3 months ago
This is an area of outstanding beauty. how can this be allowed to happen?!
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Nicholas Corke
3 months ago
Once its gone it'll never come back
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Dean Heather
3 months ago
No thought has gone into this, the size is ridiculous, wildlife that will be affected, local villages destroyed, and what about the farmers losing everything, shameful of Taylor wimpy.
Its our local area, beautiful countryside that needs to remain. Our roads are already too busy and cannot handle more traffic.
This development is excessive, there is insufficient infrastructure to support it, and the sale of the land in the first instance, and the price it was sold for, needs investigation. This is scandalous.
The effect on environment wild life and dreadful damage to the area
Dont do it
It will ruin the Blackdown Vale, obliterate villages and will unquestionably be the end of Thurlbear Wood which is a nature reserve and SSSI
I have a place in the Blackdown Hills. The M5 is already too busy around the area. There’s no infrastructure to take this many homes; Taunton itself is already impossible to park in. There’s no mobile phone service on the M5 or anywhere near AONB; the summer traffic is already at peak.
We don’t need 7000 more homes in Taunton
An area of outstanding natural beauty. About to be obliterated. No thought for the consequences to the future generations or the wildlife and farming, which is vital to the community. Infrastructure will be minimal at best and roads will become saturated in the surrounding area. Thurlbear will be over run and diminished by this proposed development.
This is good quality farm land The infrastructure isn't in place to support such a huge development. Hospitals, schools etc
There isn’t the infrastructure in place to support a massive development such as this one. There aren’t the amenities needed and will kill a large area of natural beauty.
This is wanton vandalism
Much too close to ancient woodland and Blackdown AONB. It is essential to protect our woodlands and natural habitats. Taylor Wimpey will only meet the bare essentials of building regs. They are unlikely to take into account current climate change or environmental protection any more than regulations require this will reduce profits for their shareholders.
It appears that existing infrastructure has not been considered properly and roads all around will become a chokepoint with insufficient expansion. This will cut me off from my place of work and areas of leisure. Building on mass on the areas of natural beauty should not be permitted as rural areas, greenland's and forests are our only remaining defence against climate change which has become vastly apparent in the extreme weather of 2026.
Taunton Vale is an area of unspoilt countryside with abundant wildlife. Building on this land will destroy this environment for future generations permanently. Taunton is already suffering from over development with congested roads, over subscribed surgeries, dentists and schools. The recent Killams development that was approved on the provision of a school is a case in point, where the local authority reneged and changed the planning after approval to provide PF care home.
It's a beautiful area.. We have had enough of Somerset landscape destroyed.
1. The AONB of Thurlbear Woods and the Blackdowns need side surrounding area of open countryside to survive and develop. 2. Promises, not to develop on the south east side of the M5, should be kept.
Ridiculous & unnecessary Destruction of countryside environment & Nature
This is an area of outstanding beauty. how can this be allowed to happen?!
Once its gone it'll never come back
No thought has gone into this, the size is ridiculous, wildlife that will be affected, local villages destroyed, and what about the farmers losing everything, shameful of Taylor wimpy.