It would be a terrible shame to build a small town of this size in a beautiful part of Somerset on prime agricultural land. Apart from the ugliness (it really won’t look like the toy town illustration) it will cause light pollution and so much more traffic. Where are the jobs for these people?
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Beverley Higgins
2 months ago
There is enough of our green belt being lost to all these new builds on our small island. Enough is enough.
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Elaine Hosegood
2 months ago
NO this can not happen, we must save our beautiful countryside and all the wildlife that it supports. If this goes a head it with be utter carnage
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Lorraine Charnley
2 months ago
Yes stop the building around Thurlbear, Orchard Portman and surrounding areas stop spoiling our countryside
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Lee Durdan
2 months ago
This is a outstanding area of Natural beauty, with its views & wildlife and should not be anything else...
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Veronica Howard
2 months ago
This is essential farmland not just a pretty view. We need to retain our current land under agriculture and expand it in light of projected food scarcity. Organic new homes only not new towns.
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Sue Reading
2 months ago
Taunton is over developed now
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Mark Coleman
2 months ago
The infrastructure is not available for such a large expanse of houses . On top of this to put them on prime farm land at the base of an area of aoob ie the blackdowns is a travesty.
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Michelle Sloman
2 months ago
Far too many houses proposed for an area of natural beauty.
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Mark Edwards
2 months ago
A big bucks potential win for the very few a colossal irreversible nightmare for the many and the environment.
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Amber stevens
2 months ago
I am from Somerset and I love the landscape and the wildlife. This would be an unnecessary build. We don’t need more houses.
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Colin Hatton
2 months ago
It will destroy an area of natural beauty
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J Essex
2 months ago
Somerset towns especially Taunton do not have the infrastructure to support any more large housing developments. Orchard Grove is only partially built and already Taunton is grid locked for through traffic, major problems with access to health and social services. What is fundamental is a housing strategy based on assessed local need with fully costed infrastructure implications. We can not have another massive housing development in Taunton.
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Alex Reed
2 months ago
To protect the landscape and wildlife that lives within it
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Supporter
2 months ago
Beautiful green spaces are vital for nature, birds and many other animals and insects. Humans need green spaces as they are breathing spaces. Nature before profit disguised as housing necessity.
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Jacqueline Weymouth
2 months ago
It is getting beyond a joke now. Too much agricultural farmland is being taken for more houses!!
Taunton doesn't need to be extended, it doesn't have the jobs available for all these people.
Beautiful farmland should be protected.
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Linda Woollan
2 months ago
Need more country sides
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Yvonne Attridge-Hall
2 months ago
I object to the destruction of yet another beautiful area around Taunton and that our roads and hospital cannot cope with further congestion.
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Rosie Inge
2 months ago
This country is too wonderful to have such huge blots deposited in such a beautiful, historic and geographical area. We need Nature to stabilise our health.
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David Couper
2 months ago
The scenery and wildlife of the Blackdown Vale are part of what makes Somerset such a special place. Destroying it will destroy Somerset for me.
It would be a terrible shame to build a small town of this size in a beautiful part of Somerset on prime agricultural land. Apart from the ugliness (it really won’t look like the toy town illustration) it will cause light pollution and so much more traffic. Where are the jobs for these people?
There is enough of our green belt being lost to all these new builds on our small island. Enough is enough.
NO this can not happen, we must save our beautiful countryside and all the wildlife that it supports. If this goes a head it with be utter carnage
Yes stop the building around Thurlbear, Orchard Portman and surrounding areas stop spoiling our countryside
This is a outstanding area of Natural beauty, with its views & wildlife and should not be anything else...
This is essential farmland not just a pretty view. We need to retain our current land under agriculture and expand it in light of projected food scarcity. Organic new homes only not new towns.
Taunton is over developed now
The infrastructure is not available for such a large expanse of houses . On top of this to put them on prime farm land at the base of an area of aoob ie the blackdowns is a travesty.
Far too many houses proposed for an area of natural beauty.
A big bucks potential win for the very few a colossal irreversible nightmare for the many and the environment.
I am from Somerset and I love the landscape and the wildlife. This would be an unnecessary build. We don’t need more houses.
It will destroy an area of natural beauty
Somerset towns especially Taunton do not have the infrastructure to support any more large housing developments. Orchard Grove is only partially built and already Taunton is grid locked for through traffic, major problems with access to health and social services. What is fundamental is a housing strategy based on assessed local need with fully costed infrastructure implications. We can not have another massive housing development in Taunton.
To protect the landscape and wildlife that lives within it
Beautiful green spaces are vital for nature, birds and many other animals and insects. Humans need green spaces as they are breathing spaces. Nature before profit disguised as housing necessity.
It is getting beyond a joke now. Too much agricultural farmland is being taken for more houses!! Taunton doesn't need to be extended, it doesn't have the jobs available for all these people. Beautiful farmland should be protected.
Need more country sides
I object to the destruction of yet another beautiful area around Taunton and that our roads and hospital cannot cope with further congestion.
This country is too wonderful to have such huge blots deposited in such a beautiful, historic and geographical area. We need Nature to stabilise our health.
The scenery and wildlife of the Blackdown Vale are part of what makes Somerset such a special place. Destroying it will destroy Somerset for me.