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Save the Blackdown Vale

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Mike C Verified
1 day ago

It was one of the main reasons for living in the area.

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David Paver Verified
1 day ago

Stop concreting and tarmacing over our countryside. No matter how 'enviromentally friendly' you pretend these developments are, they'll never replace the beautiful countryside you're destroying and never replace the habitat of the animals you're driving out. Will you ever listen? Of course not!

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Supporter Verified
1 day ago

Far too many houses on our delightful countryside. More imaginative solutions need to be thought of. Our towns services; doctors, dentists, schools and social services haven’t enough money to cope with a development that is as big as a town!

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Philip Wiggan Verified
1 day ago

This will yet more strain on local resources and infrastructures and loss of nature.

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Brian Meyerdierks Verified
1 day ago

Protect the black down hills and Woodlands

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Karina Morgan Verified
1 day ago

Because I walk in this area everyday and love seeing the wildlife flourish. It would be such a shame to ruin it all with concrete

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Neil Grant Verified
1 day ago

Planning process deeply flawed and prejudicial - can’t be relied upon in this area

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Carole Blake Verified
1 day ago

This is important productive farmland. Building a settlement of this size to the south of the motorway is ridiculous. It will totally ruin not just this area, but the surrounding villages and countryside.

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Heather Chaplin Verified
1 day ago

The proposed development will be an environmental catastrophe. Taunton does not have the infrastructure to increase in size to this extent. Develop brownfield sites first, and improve the quality of people's lives!

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Andy Spragg Verified
1 day ago

Brown field sites have to be the way to go now. Also, I don't believe the developers would put enough support service in place - GP Surgeries, Schools, community hubs etc. Nature. It's a gorgeous area. I don't want it paved over Finally, the mess. A development of this size will take 2-3 years to complete. During that time it will be a building site.

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Jane Sanders Verified
1 day ago

This is an area of outstanding natural beauty and one of the only places people in Taunton can go to for cycling walking lovely villages etc ...please don't destroy yet another area of beautiful countryside around Taunton with a mass development. A new town surely needs to go somewhere at least 15-20 miles away from another major town. Otherwise you just create chaos, loads of traffic and people wonder why and how it was allowed to happen. Please don't make an awful, poor decision.

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Veronica Hogben Verified
1 day ago

We want to use our farm and produce our own food. You keep building on farm land we will still end up buying food from other countries. Use the houses that are derelict and make them into houses first

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Henry Sparkes Verified
1 day ago

To keep the natural landscape and promises made by previous.

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Chris Gaines Verified
1 day ago

I am signing this position due to the over population of Taunton. Not only will it be horrendous to see all this greenbelt land taken away but the infrastructure can't take it. The town traffic barely moves on a good day and as a delivery driver it is a nightmare. Added pollution to the environment due to idle engines, road surfaces becoming hazardous due to increased traffic and the massive loss of wildlife habitat. This development must not happen.

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Graeme Watt Verified
1 day ago

Protect our environment and culture and keep development to a proportionate scale foe existing communities and infrastructure please.

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Heather Phillips Verified
1 day ago

This is important habitat and also productive farm land. The local lanes between Taunton and and the A358 already can not cope at all. The state of them is terrible and positively dangerous. Save the existing villages from this madness.

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ANNE PERRY Verified
1 day ago

I oppose this large scale housing development as a need for such a development in that particular location has not been proven.

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Kelly Atherton Verified
1 day ago

Keep our beautiful green spaces green for us and for future generations. Once they have gone, they have gone forever.

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Paul Cooper Verified
1 day ago

Taunton cannot cope under it’s current population neither the town or the infrastructure!

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Jane Sanders Verified
1 day ago

This is an area of outstanding natural beauty and one of the only places people in Taunton can go to for cycling walking lovely villages etc ...please don't destroy yet another area of beautiful countryside around Taunton with a mass development. A new town surely needs to go somewhere at least 15-20 miles away from another major town. Otherwise you just create chaos, loads of traffic and people wonder why and how it was allowed to happen. Please don't make an awful, poor decision.