Do we want fields of glass?
Does the future of the Mendip countryside lie under glass?An application for a solar farm at Whitley Lane Walton, in particular, and a second one at Pedwell are currently being considered by Mendip District Council.The impact of the Whitley Lane one will be enormous with sheets of glass covering the fields on a hilltop. Even though a screening plan is envisaged it will be visible from the A39 and the area of the Walton Gateway pub.We live in an area of natural beauty and if these applications…

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Author: Central Somerset Gazette

I am not a scaremonger
REGARDING Councillor Barron’s input in the last issue, it’s quite unfair to suggest that I am a scaremonger.This is not even about me. There are 140 people in our group and there were more than 1,000 signatories to our petition last year.Are we all scaremongers? And just what do we have to gain from scaremongering?The truth is that we have a legitimate cause for concern which has not been addressed by our elected representatives.And Mr Barron may not have understood that my plea for reassurance…

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Author: Central Somerset Gazette

Horrified over a lack of signs advertising fair
IN 2012 my wife and I were horrified to find there were no signs along the Glastonbury bypass or roundabout warning of the Tor fair.We notified the Glastonbury town clerk who managed to get signs put out.We were angry that once again no signs had been put out for this year’s fair when we were passing along the bypass on Tor Fair day. We rang the town hall again. No one answered. We left a message for the town clerk to ring us. No one bothered. So we rang wonderful Mendip District Council…

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Author: Central Somerset Gazette