
Daniel Mumby
Local Democracy Reporter at Somerset Live
Local Democracy Reporter for Somerset, based @SomersetLive. All views mine. Stories or queries to [email protected]. Also at https://t.co/ZBpw07PAfK
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6 days ago |
hellorayo.co.uk | Hannah Richardson |Daniel Mumby
Somerset Council's given permission for the one-day festival. Author: Hannah Richardson & Daniel Mumby (LDRS)Published 11 hours agoA major music festival will be returning to Wellington town centre this summer after Somerset Council agreed to grant the necessary licence. Huw Weston applied for a licence to stage the ‘Welliestock’ event at Wellington Rugby Football Club off Corams Lane for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic.
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6 days ago |
somersetcountygazette.co.uk | Daniel Mumby
10 1/1 The delivery of a complete north-south walking and cycling route across Taunton will move a step closer as part of a newly approved housing development. Somerset Council’s planning committee west voted in mid-April to approve revised plans for the third and final phase of the Nerrols Farm development, comprising 292 homes on Lyngford Lane.
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bbc.co.uk | Daniel Mumby
Image source, Daniel MumbyImage caption, Highbridge Medical Centre is one of the Somerset surgeries set to expand Local Democracy Reporting ServiceSixteen doctors' surgeries in Somerset will be able to expand and provide more appointments following new government funding. The Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) says more than £102m will be shared by around 1,000 practices across the UK.
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somersetlive.co.uk | Daniel Mumby
A major housing development on the Somerset-Dorset border could be scrapped after local residents won the right to pursue a judicial review. The Planning Inspectorate granted outline permission to Gladman Developments back in November 2018 to build up to 130 homes on Woodhayes Way in Henstridge. The site was subsequently sold to Barratt David Wilson Homes, who secured more detailed permission for the same number of homes in May 2022 on what has been christened the Townsend Landings site.
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bbc.com | Daniel Mumby
Funding boost for 16 Somerset GP surgeries Daniel MumbyLocal Democracy Reporting ServiceDaniel MumbyHighbridge Medical Centre is one of the Somerset surgeries set to expand Sixteen doctors' surgeries in Somerset will be able to expand and provide more appointments following new government funding. The Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) says more than £102m will be shared by around 1,000 practices across the UK.
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ICYMI, #Bridgwater MP @Ashley7Fox isn't mincing his words when it comes to these plans for 750 new homes near the #M5: https://t.co/IdMOVDZJM7 #LDReporter #Somerset #NHS

ICYMI, West of England Developments (#Taunton) has promised to protect the land earmarked for #Wellington's new railway station if the government doesn't give the green light on June 11: https://t.co/BBixL912i0 #LDReporter #Somerset #spendingreview