125 new homes set to be built in North Somerset!

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North Somerset Council failed to make a decision on developer Permission’s plans to build in Backwell before the deadline to decide the application, and so Persimmon appealed to the government’s planning inspectorate to rule on whether it could have planning permission instead

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00:00125 homes are set to be built in a north somerset village from developers north somerset council

00:10failed to make a decision on a developer permissions plans to build in backwell before

00:16the deadline to decide the application and so her simmons has appealed to the government's

00:23planning inspector to rule whether it could have planning permission instead

00:28the council decided in december that it would have granted planning permission anyway but

00:35resolved to fight for road safety improvements councillors said that they had serious concerns

00:42about knocking down the house to create a road to new development coming off of dark lane a busy walk

00:49to the village school now planning inspectors have ruled that the plans can have planning permission

00:55to go ahead but inspector benjamin webb said that nobody could move into the houses until a traffic

01:03calming scheme to bring 85 percent of traffic down to 20 miles per hour had been signed off by north

01:11somerset council and implemented backwell parish council has said that the news was disappointing

01:18in a post on its facebook page but it added on a positive note the inspector has imposed strict

01:25conditions that developers must adhere to it is the second development to be approved on fairly fields

01:32backwell's green lung in the last three years locals fought for 40 years to prevent building on the fairly fields but

01:40the planning inspectors granted planning permission

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