Just days left to have your say...
According to the planning notice pinned on the lamp post outside the Kelways Inn, there are just 3 days left (until the end of Thursday 27th) to comment on, support or object to plans for 94 new homes on land opposite the pub.
The field (above) is known as 'The Trial Ground' and could soon be the site of Huish Episcopi's latest mass housing development - that's on top of the hundreds already built in recent years behind Kelways and Newtown.
If the development does get the go ahead...why does this glorious beech hedge (above & pictured from the Kelways Inn end) have to be ripped out? It's been part of the landscape for decades and straddles the field from one end to the other.
The applicants are seeking its removal, saying getting rid of it "would enhance the properties"
Come again? Surely keeping it would enhance the new properties rather than the usual bland brown fence panels stretching out in all directions? Couldn't that be a condition of the application - that this towering massive hedge stays? Then at least we keep something of the original site?
Many people don't want the new housing at all claiming the roads, sewers and doctor's surgery can't handle another 94 households moving in - and that the development will swallow up a significant green space in Huish.
Have they got a point or are they all just nimbys who don't like change?
If you want to have your say, click on the link above to go to the
district council website and details of the application. Then click on
the 'comments' tab and off you go.
- if you get lost or can't find the comments section...type 'The Trial Ground' in the district council's search bar and you should end up in the right place.
In other news, the Home Office says it's already had over 70 e-mails supporting proposals to send several members of Langport Town Council - and the clerk - to the Grange for the weekend.
Details are still coming in.
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Great backing bands too with The Skimmity Hitchers & The Imprints
£15 a ticket
All in the big marquee at Thorney - flaps open 7pm
Don't miss it!
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Fill'em up with a beverage of your choice & take it back to your table!
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