Bristol-based developer submits one of two large Somerset housing bids on day county wildfire hits farmland
Planning applications for more than 600 homes on rural land were filed in Somerset on 21 August, the same day a wildfire scorched five hectares of farmland and woodland.
Somerset County Gazette reported that Bristol-based Hallam Land Management Ltd submitted an outline planning application for up to 380 homes on farmland either side of Compton Road, near Sherborne Road and Babylon Hill, Yeovil [1]. The newspaper also reported that plans were submitted for up to 225 homes on farmland at the edge of a historic market town near Taunton [2].
BBC News Somerset said that fire crews were fighting a wildfire on two fronts that had covered five hectares and affected farmland and woodland [3][4].
Sources
- Somerset County Gazette: 380 new homes proposed on farmland near Yeovil's Babylon Hill
- Somerset County Gazette: Plans unveiled for 225 new homes in Somerset countryside
- BBC News Somerset: Fire service fighting wild fire 'on two fronts'
- BBC News Somerset: Fire service fighting wild fire 'on two fronts'
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