This developement should not go ahead. Our countryside, wildlife and agricultural land is being destroyed. Taunton is being ruined and we are losing a way of life that the south west is famed for. Peaceful, relaxed, helathy. Excessive building should not be allowed and profit put before people.
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Trevor Parsons
3 months ago
Once it’s gone it’s gone
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Supporter
3 months ago
More farmland being taken out of use when we should be using more brownfield sites. Where are all these people going to work, there are no jobs in Taunton and how will roads cope with this? Ridiculous
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Richard Ames
3 months ago
9000 homes in open countryside ….. really?
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Susan Bowles
3 months ago
This proposed development is much, much too big! The whole valley will be ruined. It's a special area that you see as you come down the hill towards Taunton.
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Hayley Coles
3 months ago
We need to stop building on good agriculture land for farming
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alex newberry
3 months ago
A development this size with no new infrastructure for the added traffic or people is ridiculous and the loss of green land and farm land. It’s greed from the developers
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Isaac Cowlard
3 months ago
No Infrastructure, no housing
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Gemmah Morris
3 months ago
Our green spaces in Somerset are being decimated with data centres and developments. I am extremely concerned about our wildlife and rivers. Somerset has enough with Hinkley PC
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Kate Turner
3 months ago
This is prime agricultural land..its not for houses. I grew up in Shoreditch Road and Orchard Portman was my playground growing up. Its beautiful countryside and the Crown Estates sold it far too cheaply to developers.
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Audrey Ketcher
3 months ago
Far too big and dense a development. Productive farmland should not be built over. We have to find other solutions.
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Carole smith
3 months ago
So wrong , the area can not sustain that amount of house in any form
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Nicola Bowerman
3 months ago
A development based on pure greed!
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Cathy Williams
3 months ago
We have enough new builds in and around Taunton and so many areas needing an uplift
Somerset is rural -dont destroy our beautifl country side
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Catherine Dowell
3 months ago
I Iive on the B3170, this road and all around orchard Portman/ Thurlbear floods! The school even closes when it’s bad due to flooding.
Houses would need to be on stilts!
It’s an area of outstanding natural beauty.
We don’t want these houses It’s beautiful and unspoilt. We have 6 deer visit us in our field and walk down our drive. 4 Buzzards, owls, wood peckers, fox’s, badgers. Where are they to go? This is their land too. Hot air balloons fly over to see the view. Traffic is bad when M5 shuts
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Roger Gray
3 months ago
In my opinion it's an area of outstanding natural beauty
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T B
3 months ago
YOU in Government may a Goal YOU have decided YOU HAVE TO ACHIEVE, but the Goal does NOT have to have the same PLAN across the board! You MUST adjust and adapt it to individual situations - Somerset and the Blackdown Vale included! You CAN change your PLAN and meet YOUR GOAL so we ask you DO IT! Scrap the idea of developing Blackdown Vale before its too late!!!!!
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Georgina Skirton
3 months ago
This is such an important area of countryside to save for the people of Taunton. The damage to wildlife and farming provision for the nation is unimaginable, to cover this area with concrete and tarmac, and undoubtedly artificial grass. The road infrastructure around Taunton does not cope as it is, with this part of the town significantly suffering already, with the only main routes totally congested at peak traffic times, which also have extended in duration due to the levels of traffic.
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P E
3 months ago
"And birds and trees and flowers without a name
All sighed when lawless law's enclosure came ..."
We need to speak for those without a human voice and prevent the loss of their homes and the HUGE LOSS to us that will be a result of developments such as these!
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Daniel Tucker
3 months ago
This will devastate the countryside forever. It will also put undue pressure on the services and infrastructure in Taunton.
This developement should not go ahead. Our countryside, wildlife and agricultural land is being destroyed. Taunton is being ruined and we are losing a way of life that the south west is famed for. Peaceful, relaxed, helathy. Excessive building should not be allowed and profit put before people.
Once it’s gone it’s gone
More farmland being taken out of use when we should be using more brownfield sites. Where are all these people going to work, there are no jobs in Taunton and how will roads cope with this? Ridiculous
9000 homes in open countryside ….. really?
This proposed development is much, much too big! The whole valley will be ruined. It's a special area that you see as you come down the hill towards Taunton.
We need to stop building on good agriculture land for farming
A development this size with no new infrastructure for the added traffic or people is ridiculous and the loss of green land and farm land. It’s greed from the developers
No Infrastructure, no housing
Our green spaces in Somerset are being decimated with data centres and developments. I am extremely concerned about our wildlife and rivers. Somerset has enough with Hinkley PC
This is prime agricultural land..its not for houses. I grew up in Shoreditch Road and Orchard Portman was my playground growing up. Its beautiful countryside and the Crown Estates sold it far too cheaply to developers.
Far too big and dense a development. Productive farmland should not be built over. We have to find other solutions.
So wrong , the area can not sustain that amount of house in any form
A development based on pure greed!
We have enough new builds in and around Taunton and so many areas needing an uplift Somerset is rural -dont destroy our beautifl country side
I Iive on the B3170, this road and all around orchard Portman/ Thurlbear floods! The school even closes when it’s bad due to flooding. Houses would need to be on stilts! It’s an area of outstanding natural beauty. We don’t want these houses It’s beautiful and unspoilt. We have 6 deer visit us in our field and walk down our drive. 4 Buzzards, owls, wood peckers, fox’s, badgers. Where are they to go? This is their land too. Hot air balloons fly over to see the view. Traffic is bad when M5 shuts
In my opinion it's an area of outstanding natural beauty
YOU in Government may a Goal YOU have decided YOU HAVE TO ACHIEVE, but the Goal does NOT have to have the same PLAN across the board! You MUST adjust and adapt it to individual situations - Somerset and the Blackdown Vale included! You CAN change your PLAN and meet YOUR GOAL so we ask you DO IT! Scrap the idea of developing Blackdown Vale before its too late!!!!!
This is such an important area of countryside to save for the people of Taunton. The damage to wildlife and farming provision for the nation is unimaginable, to cover this area with concrete and tarmac, and undoubtedly artificial grass. The road infrastructure around Taunton does not cope as it is, with this part of the town significantly suffering already, with the only main routes totally congested at peak traffic times, which also have extended in duration due to the levels of traffic.
"And birds and trees and flowers without a name All sighed when lawless law's enclosure came ..." We need to speak for those without a human voice and prevent the loss of their homes and the HUGE LOSS to us that will be a result of developments such as these!
This will devastate the countryside forever. It will also put undue pressure on the services and infrastructure in Taunton.