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We wish to register our objections to the proposed local plan.

Green belt is sacrosanct. It was set up years ago and the reasons for its creation have not altered in the intervening years. Despite listening carefully to Mr Hunt's presentation in Milverton last evening, we still do not know what exceptional reasons exist to justify encroachment.

We are also unpersuaded that the model used to calculate the housing requirement over the next fifteen years stands up to close scrutiny in some of its assumptions.

Finally - and despite persistent questioning - Mr Hunt failed to clarify the reasons why the housing requirement and certain designated areas, originally identified for development, have changed since the 2010 plan, into which (one assumes) an equal amount of careful consideration was invested