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Save the Blackdown Vale

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Debbie Pople-griffiths Verified
1 month ago

This will destroy our local wildlife in an area of outstanding natural beauty. The infrastructure cannot sustain any further development let alone one of this scale.

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Supporter Verified
1 month ago

This is my home. To build here would be devastating.

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Mandy Wilson Verified
1 month ago

This is an area of outstanding beauty much lived and used by those enjoying a rural life. It enables recreation for many thousands each year walking hiking nature watching mountain biking. There are brown field areas that are more appropriate

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Buttle Vicky Verified
1 month ago

Stop this madness! There is far too many houses compared to schools, gp surgeries and musgrove won’t cope - utter shocking

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Steph childs Verified
1 month ago

Disgusting size development that will destroy a beautiful landscape.

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Chris Dove Verified
1 month ago

We’ve only recently moved to the area because of its beautiful countryside and peaceful surroundings. We walk our dog in the Blackdown Hills every day and love the scenery. The roads around Taunton are already busy. Building in Blackdown Vale will only add more traffic and take away the natural beauty that makes this area so special. Once these green spaces are lost, they can’t be replaced.

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S Hayman Verified
1 month ago

We live in a very rural area with small villages and hamlets in and on the edge of an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. There is little infra structure, and very few amenities. A settlement of this size will be totally inappropriate in such a landscape. It will be ruinous for those living in the area and for wildlife in particular.

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jennifer wisket Verified
1 month ago

This beautiful and historic landscape must not be destroyed by a massive housing estate - nether wanted nor needed .

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Ian Jolly Verified
1 month ago

Inappropriate development.

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Gail Downton Verified
1 month ago

The Blackdown are special, stop building on green fields. Flooding and infrastructure is a really concern.

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Adam Baker Verified
1 month ago

Will cause a traffic nightmare and ruin my running route

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Megan Pendry Verified
1 month ago

The road infrastructure already can't cope - especially the A303/A358 roundabout and through Henlade. If they aren't improving that (which they aren't, that consultation is dead and buried), this is ridiculous.

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Dawn Ring Verified
1 month ago

This is an area of outstanding beauty, and should be orotected

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Penny Walker Verified
1 month ago

This must not be allowed to happen

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Chris Golding Verified
1 month ago

This land is needed to help feed this country.

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Ann Jones Verified
1 month ago

There is NOTHING right about Taylor Wimpey’s proposal…it’s simply developer greed and NOT community need

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SUSAN BROWN Verified
1 month ago

This should never be allowed,it is taking away farm land that contributes to the town and surrounding areas.plus these are villages we don’t want to be living in amongst 7000 concrete houses.

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Steve Hampton Verified
1 month ago

I live in the area and it is heavily farmed and we need to allow the farming to continue to have some level of food security. In addition the area already struggles with infrastructure for the current population of Taunton and surrounding areas.

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Cheryl Bodily Verified
1 month ago

Just too much development for the area.

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Jonathan Merritt Verified
1 month ago Featured

A RIDICULOUS size development for a town that has already reached or surpassed saturation point. Devastating a beautiful landscape and agricultural productive land. No infrastructure, lack of reservoirs, and a motorway that cannot cope........it seems to be closed on a daily basis!