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Neighbour Consultation Invitation, Land south of Cherry Blossom Way, Sparkford
2nd July 2024
Neighbour Consultation Invitation pdf
INVITATION TO PUBLIC EXHIBITION 20th June 2024
14th June 2024
Boon Brown are holding a public exhibition at Sparkford Parish Hall on Thursday 20 June from 4pm - 7pm to discuss potential retail use for a greenfield site off the High Street which is currently being considered by Somerset Council for commercial development - planning application number 22/01598/OUT. This is an opportunity for residents to let the agent and landowner know what the local community would / wouldn’t want and to comment on their current and future proposals for the development…
Proposals for residential development to the south of Cherry Blossom Way,
21st May 2024
Proposals for residential development
May bank holidays bring changes to waste collections
1st May 2024
Somerset Council are reminding residents that waste collections will change during May as bank holidays start and end the month. During the weeks beginning Monday 6 May, and Monday 27 May, collections of recycling, refuse and garden waste will be one day later than usual. If your recycling and/or refuse is usually collected on a Monday, then it will be collected on a Tuesday, if your usual day is a Tuesday it will be collected on a Wednesday and so on. This includes collections that would…
National Highways: Next traffic switch - A303 Sparkford to Ilchester scheme
25th March 2024
What’s happening? To allow us to carry out the next phase of construction, we need to change the traffic management layout between the Steart Hill junction and Gason Lane, known as the Wales embankment. We’ll be moving traffic onto a section of the newly built westbound carriageway to allow us a safe area to build the new eastbound carriageway at this location. The traffic management changes are: Eastbound traffic will switch onto a single lane of the new westbound carriageway at Steart Hill…
Press release: End to recycling site charges for some DIY waste
22nd December 2023
Somerset residents will soon be able to dispose of some DIY waste free of charge at Somerset recycling sites – but they will need to book ahead. Following a recent change of legislation, from 1 January 2024, current charges for disposing of construction and demolition materials including: asbestos, plasterboard, hardcore and rubble from household DIY projects will be removed. Each calendar month every household will be able to bring up to eight, 50 litre sacks (or equivalent 2m sheets of…