Here we go again...
It feels a bit like that, yet another South Somerset District Council meeting on the controversial house-building application for the Trial Ground opposite the former Kelways Inn.
At the last committee meeting, the Persimmon Homes plan was rejected by district councillors who liked neither the road layout (too narrow for a fire engine and probably even the recycling/refuse lorries) nor the design of the 80 proposed dwellings.
Today (Tues), at 10am, there's a meeting of The Regulation Committee in Yeovil which may well vote the application through provided - we believe - that Persimmon agree to a few conditions. One of them isn't the retention of the beech hedge/avenue which goes right down through the middle of the land.
That's despite the fact that virtually all public correspondence received by the council objects to its removal.
To be honest, rather than criticise house design and road layout, many locals would rather the land weren't built on at all - have you seen the state of weekday morning traffic through Langport? - and now we're thinking of adding what could be at least another 80 vehicles to that problem.
Today's meeting is open to the public and you're allowed to speak before any vote.
There's a pretty good write-up of the story so far on page 4 of the July issue of Levelling Langport magazine.
If you're not a reader, at least look at the editor's last paragraph entitled 'Prediction'. Frank words but he's probably right...it's happened before...many times.
Turn back to page 2 and there's another piece about it, a letter from the leader of Huish Episcopi Parish Council putting the record straight on a few issues.
Click on the link below and you are taken to a list of district councillors who vote on the application tomorrow, their e-mail addresses are also provided:
Persimmon appear to have a somewhat demonic reputation throughout the UK, check out this Facebook page about them:
So there ya go, by lunchtime today the fatcats at Persimmon could well be rubbing their hands together - so much for democracy eh?
Rumour has it there's a small but growing number of locals who are prepared to get out and attempt to stop the diggers ripping out the beech hedge when the day comes...are you one of them?
Have a think.
That's it for this evening, fight the good fight folks and carry on reading. The blog's getting around 2000 views per week this month, if you want to advertise - get in touch.
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