Public meeting at Johnson Park to discuss controversial housing plans

A PUBLIC meeting will be held tomorrow (Tuesday, November 12, 2013) in Yeovil to discuss new plans to build hundreds of homes across the town.

The plan for the future development of the town over the next 15 years is being re-examined – in particular where housing will go as part of Yeovil’s “urban extension.”

South Somerset District Council had originally wanted to earmark 2,500 homes for a site in the East Coker area known as Keyford, but that has now been scaled back to 800 while it has been proposed that a further 760 properties be built in the Mudford area of Yeovil.

The proposals still have to be ratified by the overall council, but the authority’s leader, Cllr Ric Pallister, has already said that they would be getting “double trouble” over the plans with people in East Coker and now the Mudford area unhappy.

Now a public meeting will be held tomorrow (November 13) at Johnson Park Sports Club in Cornation Avenue, Yeovil, from 7.30pm about the proposed changes to the plan and the development plans for Mudford.

Yeovil Without Parish Council believes that with Lyde Road and Brismore developments having already started, enough housing is being supplied for that part of the town.

A spokesman said: “Other areas, particularly the south, should share more of the burden.

“That is why a public meeting has been called by Yeovil Without, Brympton, Mudford and other council to put our case forward and ask for your views.”

People are being urged to go along to the meeting and have their say.

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