Draft Core Strategy (incorporating Preferred Options) October 2010
Draft Core Strategy (incorporating Preferred Options)
Local Aspirations
6.98 The Somerton Town Plan (2005) recognises a number of challenges that need to be resolved to enable Somerton to maintain its position as a prosperous rural centre. These include the:
- loss/disuse of retail premises;
- parking and traffic management in the town centre;
- the lack of public transport;
- the lack of facilities for children and teenagers;
- sports facilities;
- the lack of business refuse recycling facilities; and
- inappropriate use of some buildings.
6.99 The Town and Parish Cluster Meeting workshops held as part of the preparation of this draft document raised further issues including:
- a lack of open space, allotments;
- a lack of railway station and routes for walkers and cyclists within the town;
- pressure on the doctors surgery;
- pressure on the drain/sewerage system; and
- the loss of good quality agricultural land if development takes place to the west of Somerton.[1]
1. Further investigation has discovered that concerns relating to best and most versatile agricultural land being present immediately west of Somerton are not substantiated [back]
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