New Chard pressure group calls on council to refuse housing plans and save town from traffic misery
A decision on 252 new homes is due in the coming days
05:00, 27 MAY 2021
Congestion in Chard town centre on April 22 (Image: David Bell)
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A newly-formed pressure group is demanding plans for new homes in Chard be refused, arguing they will not deliver the local facilities that were promised.
ERR: Northern entrance to the Persimmon Homes site on the B3162 Forton Road in Chard. Pic: Daniel Mumby. ALL of Chard’s new relief road will be delivered – but not necessarily in the right order. It may sound like a line from a Morecambe and Wise sketch, but the decision could have serious implications for the town in the years ahead. South Somerset District Council identified the need for an eastern relief road (ERR) in Chard in its Local Plan, in order to take pressure off the town centre. Six years after the plan was formally adopted in March 2015, not a single metre of the new road has been delivered – and the first possible section that could be built may end up being the section that was intended to be built last.
ERR: Northern entrance to the Persimmon Homes site on the B3162 Forton Road in Chard. Pic: Daniel Mumby. ALL of Chard’s new relief road will be delivered – but not necessarily in the right order. It may sound like a line from a Morecambe and Wise sketch, but the decision could have serious implications for the town in the years ahead. South Somerset District Council identified the need for an eastern relief road (ERR) in Chard in its Local Plan, in order to take pressure off the town centre. Six years after the plan was formally adopted in March 2015, not a single metre of the new road has been delivered – and the first possible section that could be built may end up being the section that was intended to be built last.
Decision due on relief road for Somerset town
The road is designed to take pressure off the town centre
17:39, 6 MAY 2021
Northern entrance to the Persimmon Homes site on the B3162 Forton Road in Chard (Image: Daniel Mumby)
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All of Chard s new relief road will be delivered - but not necessarily in the right order.
Health bosses silent on more funding for Somerset doctors
They could be expected to cope with people from 252 new homes in the town
12:46, 5 MAY 2021
Essex House Medical Centre on Fore Street in Chard (Image: Google Maps)
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Somerset health bosses say they cannot be sure how much money will be needed to ensure Chard s doctors surgeries can cope with further housing.