VICTORY! Another Green Fields Campaign Won in North Somerset - But What Happens Next?

 

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"I am pleased that we helped to defeat it and to stand up for local residents, because that is what Somerset Independents was formed to do."

The Butts Batch development in Wrington by Strongvox has been defeated. The planning inspector G.D. Jones has dismissed the appeal after North Somerset Council had rejected the planning application.

Somerset Independents puts residents first. We stood up for residents of Wrington against a poor development. Our Leader Andrew Pope objected to the application and encouraged others to do so.

We worked with campaigners in Wrington and provided advice to the Keep Wrington as Wrington campaign.

We also held the local Independent North Somerset Councillor Steve Hogg to account, when he repeatedly refused to formally object to the application. We urged him to be stronger in his opposition and in fairness, he was.

But what happens next?

Andrew Pope says:

 

Andrew Pope
Leader of Somerset Independents

 

"This was the wrong development in the wrong place at the wrong time. I am pleased that we helped to defeat it and to stand up for local residents, because that is what Somerset Independents was formed to do.

However, it is just a matter of time before another application comes forward and it will start all over again.

Whether it will be Strongvox or another applicant, we will see.

So while the battle for Butts Batch has been won for now, it will be the site of another battle if the future application is not acceptable to local residents.

Whether us volunteers at Somerset Independents will campaign against it, and who we will work with or not work with, remains to be seen."

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