Save Cleeve Hill
Donation protected
Our immediate call out is for funds to finance a solicitors letter in the near future. we need £3000 for this initial action.
We are the Cleeve Hill Action Group and we are working to overturn a planning application to build a large number of houses on a green field site in West Somerset. There are many reasons why the development is wrong:
- the creation of unsustainable traffic levels in this small town with narrow single lane roads
- the destruction of what is possibly a historic site of a medieval town
- the destruction of a SSSI
- the fact that the land is unstable - this will impact current residents by causing subsidence, and purchasers of the new homes as the houses will be at a similar risk
- increasing an already high flood risk for the centre of our town
- there is an alternative brown field site available which could accommodate nearly 3 times as many houses
We believe the authorities will try and push this development through despite the way it contravenes many statutory requirements because the developer will have to be responsible for rebuilding the collapsing highway, thus saving the authorities money. So they will make what we believe to be an illegal decision because it will save them money and they know it will be very costly and difficult for the public to challenge it. Your donations will be put towards challenging this application at every level, but mainly towards legal costs if we should have to go to court.
If you’ve ever felt the suffocating frustration of bad governance and the fact that only the rich can afford to challenge it and get justice, please contribute to our campaign to fight one injustice that will affect the thousands of ordinary people that live in our town.
You will be helping to preserve precious green land and striking a blow for ordinary people against a callous bureaucracy and greedy developers.
The residents of Watchet will be forever in your debt.
Organizer
Jan Martin
Organizer
England
