00:00125 homes are set to be built in a north somerset village from developers north somerset council
00:10failed to make a decision on a developer permissions plans to build in backwell before
00:16the deadline to decide the application and so her simmons has appealed to the government's
00:23planning inspector to rule whether it could have planning permission instead
00:28the council decided in december that it would have granted planning permission anyway but
00:35resolved to fight for road safety improvements councillors said that they had serious concerns
00:42about knocking down the house to create a road to new development coming off of dark lane a busy walk
00:49to the village school now planning inspectors have ruled that the plans can have planning permission
00:55to go ahead but inspector benjamin webb said that nobody could move into the houses until a traffic
01:03calming scheme to bring 85 percent of traffic down to 20 miles per hour had been signed off by north
01:11somerset council and implemented backwell parish council has said that the news was disappointing
01:18in a post on its facebook page but it added on a positive note the inspector has imposed strict
01:25conditions that developers must adhere to it is the second development to be approved on fairly fields
01:32backwell's green lung in the last three years locals fought for 40 years to prevent building on the fairly fields but
01:40the planning inspectors granted planning permission
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