We need our areas of outstanding beauty to continue being beautiful and not swamped by vast swathes of houses.
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Lessa
3 months ago
This is not an appropriate place for a new town. It is prime agricultural land and an important habitat for wildlife as well as bordering a AONB and SSSIs. There are plenty of brownfield sites and numerous empty buildings around Taunton that need to be filled first
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Nicola Shakeshaft
3 months ago
We need to protect our farm land for food security. We need to protect our environment for nature and for our children. There are numerous derelict buildings and vacant industrial areas that could be repurposed. Their is not the demand for the properties proposed in this area.
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Tony O'Connor
3 months ago
Need to protect the landscape for generations to come to enjoy.
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Susan Ingleby
3 months ago
To save the blackdown vale
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Libby Walker
3 months ago
Don't take the beautiful landscape
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Piers Willmott
3 months ago
Live in vicinity. I know the motives are mostly monetary for a greedy few. The biggest donar to UK political parties, of any colour, is nearly always hiding companies. Corrupt system. Corrupt people.
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DONNA WHEELER
3 months ago
Taunton is already changing too quick and none of it has been for the better.
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sue walker
3 months ago
Can't improve on what has already been said. Please sign and share if you can
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Sandra O'Connor
3 months ago
The landscape benefits everyone and once it is developed it will be gone for ever.
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John Learoyd
3 months ago
Is this a real need for more housing around Taunton or simply a means to reach targets set by central government. Will Taunton, surrounding areas and infrastructure be able to cope with this extra pressure as people commute to other towns and cities. The M5 is closed almost every day through accidents the proposed dueling of the A358 ( although not popular ) has been cancelled making the area between the M5 and A303 chaotic at times when people try to navigate around these problems.
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Supporter
3 months ago
I have watched enough green fields disappear in the area I grew up in. Plus the infrastructure in the Taunton area cannot cope.
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Carole Wensley-Dodd
3 months ago
A whole new town of 9000 houses with single track access is not a viable proposition.
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Peter Burton
3 months ago
I’ve walked my dogs and enjoyed the natural beauty of the landscape and wild life for over 20 years. This just feels wrong.
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Christine Day
3 months ago
There is far too much over development in this area, to the cost of the wildlife - remember them? - and the people living in and around the area. There are many brownfield sites that should be used before another hectare of green is taken away. Once gone it can't be replaced and is essential, probably more now than ever, for man's survival.
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Andy Plint
3 months ago
I think there is already enough greenfield
development around Taunton there is sufficient brownfield and unused property to use.
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Clare Walsh
3 months ago
A totally inappropriate place to build a vast amount of houses on such beautiful countryside
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Karen Learoyd
3 months ago
It's a horrendous plan to ruin the outstanding beauty of the Blackdown Hills. How can there possibly be a need for such an enormous town across the M5 from Taunton
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Joan Ameye
3 months ago
Objection to the proposed Taunton Garden Village. The land is arable and should remain that way. Priorities should be to build on brownfield land within Taunton town boundaries. The council is trying to avoid bankruptcy and is struggling to maintain the present infrastructure now and this proposal will only exacerbate these challenges.
We can’t let the countryside be destroyed
We need our areas of outstanding beauty to continue being beautiful and not swamped by vast swathes of houses.
This is not an appropriate place for a new town. It is prime agricultural land and an important habitat for wildlife as well as bordering a AONB and SSSIs. There are plenty of brownfield sites and numerous empty buildings around Taunton that need to be filled first
We need to protect our farm land for food security. We need to protect our environment for nature and for our children. There are numerous derelict buildings and vacant industrial areas that could be repurposed. Their is not the demand for the properties proposed in this area.
Need to protect the landscape for generations to come to enjoy.
To save the blackdown vale
Don't take the beautiful landscape
Live in vicinity. I know the motives are mostly monetary for a greedy few. The biggest donar to UK political parties, of any colour, is nearly always hiding companies. Corrupt system. Corrupt people.
Taunton is already changing too quick and none of it has been for the better.
Can't improve on what has already been said. Please sign and share if you can
The landscape benefits everyone and once it is developed it will be gone for ever.
Is this a real need for more housing around Taunton or simply a means to reach targets set by central government. Will Taunton, surrounding areas and infrastructure be able to cope with this extra pressure as people commute to other towns and cities. The M5 is closed almost every day through accidents the proposed dueling of the A358 ( although not popular ) has been cancelled making the area between the M5 and A303 chaotic at times when people try to navigate around these problems.
I have watched enough green fields disappear in the area I grew up in. Plus the infrastructure in the Taunton area cannot cope.
A whole new town of 9000 houses with single track access is not a viable proposition.
I’ve walked my dogs and enjoyed the natural beauty of the landscape and wild life for over 20 years. This just feels wrong.
There is far too much over development in this area, to the cost of the wildlife - remember them? - and the people living in and around the area. There are many brownfield sites that should be used before another hectare of green is taken away. Once gone it can't be replaced and is essential, probably more now than ever, for man's survival.
I think there is already enough greenfield development around Taunton there is sufficient brownfield and unused property to use.
A totally inappropriate place to build a vast amount of houses on such beautiful countryside
It's a horrendous plan to ruin the outstanding beauty of the Blackdown Hills. How can there possibly be a need for such an enormous town across the M5 from Taunton
Objection to the proposed Taunton Garden Village. The land is arable and should remain that way. Priorities should be to build on brownfield land within Taunton town boundaries. The council is trying to avoid bankruptcy and is struggling to maintain the present infrastructure now and this proposal will only exacerbate these challenges.