Too many houses - will ruin the landscape and the ecology. Awful.
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Marilyn Bath
2 months ago
It’s a area of outstanding beauty, criminal
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Carol Clarke
2 months ago
Preserve and protect precious habitat too much development
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Carolyn Moore
2 months ago
Not enough infrastructure to support yet more houses and people. It’s getting ridiculous. Not enough hospital doctors. Waiting lists at surgeries. Schools full.
Rises clogged. Just a stupid plan altogether.
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Heather Dunn
2 months ago
Unnecessary desecration of a beautiful area and further pressure on wildlife- increasingly being forced off the Blackdowns as people’s recreational needs have increased
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Chris Bee
2 months ago
What a ridiculous and unnecessary idea this development is.
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Mel Bulmer
2 months ago
This is such a beautiful natural landscape that cannot be allowed to be destroyed in this way.
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Hugo Chelton
2 months ago
How can development on such a scale on such beautiful and supposedly protected land ever be justified?
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Roderick Chelton
2 months ago
The Orchard Portman is an area of outstanding beauty . It does not need to be vandalised by building hundreds of houses to enrich building companies .
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Neil Gladwin
2 months ago
The resulting road congestion via Taunton Town Centre together with increased pressure on already stretched services would not be sustainable.
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Henrietta Silver
2 months ago
The plans to build so many houses would be irresponsible in such a time of fragile food security.
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Barbara Hall-Palmer
2 months ago
So many additional facilities needed who will guarantee this
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Samantha Swan
2 months ago
The only need in Somerset is for council housing, and affordable, smaller properties that are ecologically cheap to run for those on lower incomes. If these were to be built in small quantities with an existing Rural communities and infill building within existing towns with ease of access to amenities instead of profit driven 3, 4 & 5 bedroom properties, this would fulfil the housing crisis that this country currently suffers. Look on sites like right move. So many family size homes available!!
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Nic Evans
2 months ago
This would lead to further loss of wildlife and natural beauty. So much has already been lost to poorly built overpriced estates. The water systems etc are already struggling to cope with all the extra load. Some places should be left alone and this is one of them.
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Debbie Fievez
2 months ago
We do not need to keep laying down concrete on beautiful British soil, we are living right now in a man making climate change - we need trees plants and pollinators to try and begin to reverse the damage we have done to this world
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Lewis Batty
2 months ago
Its important to save green spaces that people use and enjoy
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RICHARD BURGESS
2 months ago
This is a beautiful part of the world and is completely unsuitable for this mass development
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Emma Clark
2 months ago
This is a beautiful rural area which I know very well as my horse was stabled at Netherclay and I regularly rode through Orchard Portman. There are already so many new housing developments in Taunton, please do not ruin this special landscape with yet another huge development in a totally unsuitable location.
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Robert Holland
2 months ago
This is MY HOME, MY COUNTRYSIDE in MY COUNTRY. We do not need these houses on prime agricultural land.
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Druscilla Jane Dore
2 months ago
Instead of building a town near it,which will destroy and damage existing eco systems, it should be given National parks status and protected.
Too many houses - will ruin the landscape and the ecology. Awful.
It’s a area of outstanding beauty, criminal
Preserve and protect precious habitat too much development
Not enough infrastructure to support yet more houses and people. It’s getting ridiculous. Not enough hospital doctors. Waiting lists at surgeries. Schools full. Rises clogged. Just a stupid plan altogether.
Unnecessary desecration of a beautiful area and further pressure on wildlife- increasingly being forced off the Blackdowns as people’s recreational needs have increased
What a ridiculous and unnecessary idea this development is.
This is such a beautiful natural landscape that cannot be allowed to be destroyed in this way.
How can development on such a scale on such beautiful and supposedly protected land ever be justified?
The Orchard Portman is an area of outstanding beauty . It does not need to be vandalised by building hundreds of houses to enrich building companies .
The resulting road congestion via Taunton Town Centre together with increased pressure on already stretched services would not be sustainable.
The plans to build so many houses would be irresponsible in such a time of fragile food security.
So many additional facilities needed who will guarantee this
The only need in Somerset is for council housing, and affordable, smaller properties that are ecologically cheap to run for those on lower incomes. If these were to be built in small quantities with an existing Rural communities and infill building within existing towns with ease of access to amenities instead of profit driven 3, 4 & 5 bedroom properties, this would fulfil the housing crisis that this country currently suffers. Look on sites like right move. So many family size homes available!!
This would lead to further loss of wildlife and natural beauty. So much has already been lost to poorly built overpriced estates. The water systems etc are already struggling to cope with all the extra load. Some places should be left alone and this is one of them.
We do not need to keep laying down concrete on beautiful British soil, we are living right now in a man making climate change - we need trees plants and pollinators to try and begin to reverse the damage we have done to this world
Its important to save green spaces that people use and enjoy
This is a beautiful part of the world and is completely unsuitable for this mass development
This is a beautiful rural area which I know very well as my horse was stabled at Netherclay and I regularly rode through Orchard Portman. There are already so many new housing developments in Taunton, please do not ruin this special landscape with yet another huge development in a totally unsuitable location.
This is MY HOME, MY COUNTRYSIDE in MY COUNTRY. We do not need these houses on prime agricultural land.
Instead of building a town near it,which will destroy and damage existing eco systems, it should be given National parks status and protected.