The idea that Taylor Wimpey can build the equivalent of a small town to the south east of Taunton on the only green wedge of land remaining around our country town is horrifying to the majority of us!
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Val Wright
1 day ago
Because losing this wonderful resource with it’s eco system, great farming land and a wonderful asset for a concrete jungle sold to Taylor Wimpey for a steal should NOT be given the go ahead. there are Brown field sites in their dozens that could and should be built on, not pristine countryside.
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Jane Wallace
1 day ago
This is a beautiful area of countryside with great biodiversity and productive farmland. It is not an area to be destroyed by housing when there are plenty of empty houses and brownfield sites available. As a country we must put thought into planning and not mindlessly build houses destroying our countryside and taking away our food security. The infrastructure is not there for 7000 houses and village and rural life should be respected.
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Charles Bell
1 day ago
This was my childhood playground and remains so now having returned to the area after years away. Put children first: give them and their own children a green future.
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Steve Jones
1 day ago
Unnecessary green belt residential expansion is increasing the pressure on our struggling infrastructure, adding to pollution and waste problems, and mindlessly permanently destroying our green and pleasant land.
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Gary Harris
1 day ago
This would ruin the countryside around Taunton and there has already been enough new homes built in the last 10 years
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peter brayton
1 day ago
Overdeveloped site, insufficient infrastructure, loss of rural / green area, too close to area of outstanding beauty.
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Jayne Mann
1 day ago
I live in the area and to infill a farm with faceless housing is morally wrong,In Taunton town there is a large area of unused land ,used to be cattle market would be a start...
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E Birrane
1 day ago
Expanding over 10%, taking valuable farm land, encroaching on AONB.
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Jane Davenport-Lister
1 day ago
Stop the country side being destroyed
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Rebecca Tainton
1 day ago
Absolutely disaster for the environment in a rural area. This is not wanted or needed. The infrastructure of Taunton cannot support a development of this size.
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Rob hudson
1 day ago
Ruination of area of outstanding natural beauty.
Lack of access
Lack of services
Despoilation of prime agricultural land
Lack of local demand for housing, other new developments are not selling.
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Roland Willett
2 days ago
We need to protect the countryside from unnecessary development
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Sue Tiley
2 days ago
This is prime productive farmland and should be protected
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Pam Ingram
2 days ago
We would be a very small island of 23 park homes in the middle of a monstrosity of a town. All the green belt land would be gone, all the valuable farming land would be gone too. That's only the start too.
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Tania Watt
2 days ago
The Blackdown Vale is a valuable habitat for wildlife and borders the NationalLandscape of the Blackdown Hills
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Caroline Amey
2 days ago
A beautiful landscape will be ruined, too much traffic will be added to the already congestion, high pressure on services
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Mark Townley
2 days ago
A development of this scale will truly wreck the impact of this area and the surrounding villages. Being so close to the AoNB is so wrong. Without the infrastructure, utilities, public services, an estate of this scale is not sustainable and totally inappropriate to this location.
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Bex Shearer
2 days ago
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Supporter
2 days ago
This is a beautiful rural area and there has already been a huge amount of house building in the Taunton area over the last 10 years.
Developers should be building on brownfield sites before destroying our farmland and countryside.
The idea that Taylor Wimpey can build the equivalent of a small town to the south east of Taunton on the only green wedge of land remaining around our country town is horrifying to the majority of us!
Because losing this wonderful resource with it’s eco system, great farming land and a wonderful asset for a concrete jungle sold to Taylor Wimpey for a steal should NOT be given the go ahead. there are Brown field sites in their dozens that could and should be built on, not pristine countryside.
This is a beautiful area of countryside with great biodiversity and productive farmland. It is not an area to be destroyed by housing when there are plenty of empty houses and brownfield sites available. As a country we must put thought into planning and not mindlessly build houses destroying our countryside and taking away our food security. The infrastructure is not there for 7000 houses and village and rural life should be respected.
This was my childhood playground and remains so now having returned to the area after years away. Put children first: give them and their own children a green future.
Unnecessary green belt residential expansion is increasing the pressure on our struggling infrastructure, adding to pollution and waste problems, and mindlessly permanently destroying our green and pleasant land.
This would ruin the countryside around Taunton and there has already been enough new homes built in the last 10 years
Overdeveloped site, insufficient infrastructure, loss of rural / green area, too close to area of outstanding beauty.
I live in the area and to infill a farm with faceless housing is morally wrong,In Taunton town there is a large area of unused land ,used to be cattle market would be a start...
Expanding over 10%, taking valuable farm land, encroaching on AONB.
Stop the country side being destroyed
Absolutely disaster for the environment in a rural area. This is not wanted or needed. The infrastructure of Taunton cannot support a development of this size.
Ruination of area of outstanding natural beauty. Lack of access Lack of services Despoilation of prime agricultural land Lack of local demand for housing, other new developments are not selling.
We need to protect the countryside from unnecessary development
This is prime productive farmland and should be protected
We would be a very small island of 23 park homes in the middle of a monstrosity of a town. All the green belt land would be gone, all the valuable farming land would be gone too. That's only the start too.
The Blackdown Vale is a valuable habitat for wildlife and borders the NationalLandscape of the Blackdown Hills
A beautiful landscape will be ruined, too much traffic will be added to the already congestion, high pressure on services
A development of this scale will truly wreck the impact of this area and the surrounding villages. Being so close to the AoNB is so wrong. Without the infrastructure, utilities, public services, an estate of this scale is not sustainable and totally inappropriate to this location.
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This is a beautiful rural area and there has already been a huge amount of house building in the Taunton area over the last 10 years. Developers should be building on brownfield sites before destroying our farmland and countryside.