The application to build 330 houses on Ashton Hill Farm next to Weston Road has been submitted:
Read the existing objections:
Add your own via the "Make a comment" button top right before the deadline of 30 March 2026.
Key points:
The site is Green Belt agricultural land.
It is next to Ashton Hill Wood, a Site of Nature Conservation Interest and a Local Green Space in the new Local Plan.
Permission would precedent building on all the fields around the Failand triangle.
The proposal would destroy the character of Failand as a small village surrounded by green fields.
Failand is a small village with none of the facilities of a town.
The fields around Failand are NOT proposed for any form of development in the North Somerset Local Plan 2041 pre-submission plan:
https://map.n-somerset.gov.uk/LocalPlan2041.html
The site was assessed as "Less Sustainable - sites not considered consistent with spatial strategy of emerging Local Plan" in the "Pre-submission plan 2040: additional sites consultation" as were all the proposed sites on fields around Failand: