A planning application for up to 200 dwellings in the field next to Flax Bourton Road has been made:
If this goes ahead it will lead to all the fields around Failand being built on.
You need to object before the deadline of 13 February 2026. Your name and personal details will NOT be published.
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Key points:
The site is unspoilt Green Belt agricultural land.
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: