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Save the Blackdown Vale

720 Comments

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Patricia Burgess Verified
2 months ago

Natural beauty and animals habitat should be protected.

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Janice Kerrigan Verified
2 months ago

Taunton is already overpopulated and our roads are becoming more and more congested. Besides that new reservoirs are never built to compensate for the extra water usage.

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Billie-Rose Brocklehurst Verified
2 months ago

Nature is more important and we have plenty of houses empty.

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Daniel Moss Verified
2 months ago

I live in the local area and am concerned with how this will impact traffic and services within Taunton and especially around Chestnut Drive.

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Supporter Verified
2 months ago

These beautiful landscapes need saving

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Supporter Verified
2 months ago

I do not see that we need any more new housing. There is no infrastructure and we can’t keep taking natural habitat from wild birds and animals.

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J E Crouch Verified
2 months ago

Because the destruction of productive farmland and beautiful countryside is unacceptable and unwanted.

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Jennifer Coles Verified
2 months ago

Destruction of beautiful countryside unnecessarily. Just don’t need another 7000 houses

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Ryan Carby Verified
2 months ago

I live near the proposed development. We don't need this many new houses on farm land when we can't produce enough food o

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Victoria Dawson Verified
2 months ago

Such a large scale development on this site is totally inappropriate - the infrastructure, water and roads particularly, just cannot take it. Where are residents going to work? The artist's impression of the development is totally misleading. What evidence is there that they will use active travel? The development in such an environmentally sensitive area is inappropriate too. Planning law is totlly unfit for purpose. It produces unimsginative copycat developments that totally disregard the land

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Wendy Rose Verified
2 months ago

It’s a green belt area and an area of outstanding beauty that needs to be protected Once one builder is allowed to break these rules more will follow We need to protect our green areas

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Appleby Verified
2 months ago

We need to save the greenbelt from being destroyed

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Louise Pearce Verified
2 months ago

Absolutely unnecessary and I thought the Blackdows were protected

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Keith Leggett Verified
2 months ago

Over population is not good for Taunton

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J K Verified
2 months ago

Destruction of beautiful countryside for yet more houses in a town that has had no substantial investment for years, how is it supposed to support this, money from recent new developments should be put back in to the pot.

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Hannah Powell Verified
2 months ago

There just isn’t the infrastructure to support such a huge development. Local resources are already stretched and failing.

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Darren Wharton Verified
2 months ago

I was born in here

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Susie Peach Verified
2 months ago

Infrastructure necessary to support this development will be at a huge cost to local and county councils and will be an extra burden to them to provide more school places, more roads and parking and more healthcare. Building on green land should not be allowed. This is NOT a brownfield site.

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Lynn Sizer Verified
2 months ago

Need to keep this green

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magdalena maria Verified
2 months ago

The infrastructure is not good enough as it is. Adding another 7000 houses will not help