A SPAXTON resident has said she will fight ‘tooth and nail’ to stop a new development of 15 homes going ahead in the village.

This week a planning application was submitted by developers WYG, who would like to build 15 new homes on land at Four Forks House off Charlynch Lane.

On Thursday (June 14) residents were invited to a consultation event in Spaxton Village Hall to have a look at the plans, which include six affordable homes and nine market homes, and staff from WYG were on hand to answer questions.

Alison Green, whose property will neighbour the new development said she would be fighting the application ‘tooth and nail’.

“It is not going to happen. The fact is the village does not need 15 more homes,” Alison said.

“We are happy to have the affordable homes but we do not need the other houses.

“That junction and the single track road is a nightmare - when there is a motocross event up the road it is just chaos.”

Alison said wildlife would be destroyed and wondered who would buy these houses when there are already a number of properties for sale in the village.

“25 years ago Spaxton had two pubs, two shops a post office and a visiting doctor - today we have one shop and a pub.

“Infrastructure is going down but we are asked to accommodate more houses,” Alison added.

She suggested it would be better to see if Spaxton were able to create a Community Land Trust to build the affordable homes so that the market homes were not necessary.

“The affordable homes are needed, I accept that. Young people here are being priced out of living where they grew up and often end up moving to Bridgwater or further afield.”

Another nearby resident, Lucy Haswell, was also concerned with the traffic and queried how many properties they were trying to ‘cram in’ on the site.

“If there is an incident on A39 traffic is redirected through Spaxton and it can be bedlam - I have seen residents going out to direct traffic it gets so bad,” she said.

A new junction will be created to access Charlynch Road, and a new footpath will be created to link with the village.

Transport planner Phil Weatherhead said the road was typical of a rural setting and that the impact on traffic from the new homes would be ‘pretty minimal’.

Rebecca Randall, senior planner at WYG said: “Feedback we have had so far has been broadly positive.

“A clear need for housing has been identified in Sedgemoor District Council’s Local Plan and it recognises that there is a need for mixed development such as this is.

“The application complies with planning regulations and the Local Plan and will deliver all of the recommended affordable housing for Spaxton in one development.”

The plans are available to view on the planning section of Sedgemoor District Council’s website, by searching for the application number 45/14/00040.