Category: Updates
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A Brighter Future for Packsaddle Community Fields
We are proud to share with you the news that the People For Packsaddle Brighter Future document; an alternative, optimistic vision for Packsaddle Community Fields, has been published. You’ll hopefully recall that we began a consultation process several months ago, which many of you took part in, with the aim of building a credible, creative,…
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Our correspondence with Natural England regarding their response to the planning application
We’ve recently written to the Natural England Wessex Area Team (copied to the planning team at Somerset Council) regarding their ‘no objection’ to the planning application. Our correspondence has now been added to the planning portal but we thought helpful to also share with our supporters here on our website. Here is what we wrote:…
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Local residents ready to buy local green space if planning application fails
People for Packsaddle is continuing a campaign to save a local green space from development. The former Somerset County Council made a decision to sell Packsaddle Fields to developers without entering into any consultation or tender process, in a move that People for Packsaddle believes was motivated by money and based on flawed assumptions and…
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Update from the People For Packsaddle Committee
People for Packsaddle has recently written to Somerset Council to make a cash offer of £250,000 to buy Packsaddle Fields so that they can be brought into community ownership, guaranteeing a sustainable future for this much loved Asset of Community Value. We are obviously aware that Somerset County Council had previously entered into an option…
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Update from the PFP committee
We are delighted to say that as a community you have raised more than £4000 since January this year – helping to keep our campaign running. A series of coffee mornings through the winter months and more recently the plant sale and jumble sale have boosted the funds behind our campaign, ensuring much needed revenue…
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Have your say on Somerset’s Local Nature Recovery Strategy!
Somerset Council has launched an online survey to help shape the county’s Local NatureRecovery Strategy (LNRS) which will provide a single vision for nature recovery in Somerset. You can read more about the Local Nature Recovery Strategy and how it will be used here, but one point of interest is that it will be used…
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Continued support needed so we can enjoy these views for years to come
We believe the planning application to build on the fields will be decided in early January and so, in order to pay for the specialist legal support we need to prepare for this meeting, we are upping our fundraising efforts. There are many ways you can help us: 1. Attend a fundraising event. There are…
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Early December urgent update
Firstly, A BIG THANK YOU to everyone who attended the Quiz Night on 18th November and / or supported Sarah Whittaker’s Bags2School collection a couple of days later. We would like to extend our sincere and unending thanks to Sarah for all her help, enthusiasm and hard work. Put together, these two fundraisers swelled the PfP coffers by…
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November 2023 – latest update
Fundraising update Whilst we’ve been a little quiet on the messaging front, we’ve been busy behind the scenes. We believe the planning application for the proposed housing development on Packsaddle Fields is going to be heard by Somerset Council’s planning committee in the early part of 2024. This is the final push and we desperately…
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Dismay at Somerset Council’s latest clearance at the fields
The arrival of cows at this much loved Asset of Community Value is another blow to residents and wildlife Somerset Council has once again caused bewilderment and anguish amongst residents near Packsaddle Community Fields, with more aggressive clearance work and, after a decades-long absence of cattle from the site, the introduction of a herd of…
