Our neighbours in Templecombe are facing another housing challenge. A planning application for another 160 homes on Bowden Road is due to be submitted just before Christmas, with the developers \u00a0no doubt hoping that people will be too distracted by the holidays to read it and react.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Many people think Templecombe is already over developed. Like the Tilia Homes site on Slades Hill, there is only one narrow road in and out of the proposed development. Traffic for new and existing residents will be dreadful, schools and medial facilities will be overloaded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
SSDC, in its death throes before it becomes subsumed into Somerset County Council, is still the planning authority. They have already decided that the proposed site does not require an environmental assessment, despite being the emergency burial ground for thousands of foot-and-mouth infected animals in 1967. (No planning permission required then).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No doubt the developers will wish to play this down in order not to put off prospective purchasers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Blog is not going to whip up opposition \u2013 there is already a local website to do this \u2013 Say no to the Bowden road development<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n We say read the planning application (when it comes) and either recommend or object to the scheme. It\u2019s what local democracy is all about, or should be,<\/p>\n\n\n\n The panning portal is here https:\/\/www.southsomerset.gov.uk\/services\/planning\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n You can register to receive planning notifications and updates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We will keep you posted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Our neighbours in Templecombe are facing another housing challenge. A planning application for another 160 homes on Bowden Road is due to be submitted just before Christmas, with the developers \u00a0no doubt hoping that people will be too distracted by the holidays to read it and react. Many people think Templecombe is already over developed. … Continue reading “Another new Templecombe housing challenge”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2757],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6glYD-1S2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7195,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7194\/revisions\/7195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}