WORK is underway on a 26-home development in a Somerset village.
Developer Summerfield Homes has started preparing a site at Middlezoy, which will include 10 affordable properties.
Close to the village hall and primary school, the site, off Back Lane and known as Saxon Fields, will see access and highways improvements as part of the scheme, Summerfield said.
The development will provide houses ranging from one to four bedrooms, and will provide the firm’s first development of net-zero homes, with each property designed to meet the total carbon emissions set by th Building Regulation targets, generating as much renewable energy as they consume.
The new homes will have solar PV panels, air source heat pumps, shower saves, and thermally-efficient external features incorporated in the design, helping reduce energy costs while lowering their environmental footprint.
Ed Khodabandehloo, managing director at Summerfield Homes, said: “We are thrilled to have started work on our site in Middlezoy. This development will blend sustainable living with village life providing high quality energy efficient homes for local families.”
I welcome the building of new housing in the village and have no problem with the siting of this development but to say access and highways improvements is totally disingenuous. Painting a few lines on a road doesn’t constitute access and highways improvements particularly when you are talking about the main exit for the development being a blind crossroads. This is dangerous but has been forced through by Somerset Council because they don’t want to spend the money on the safe option, which is putting in a dedicated access road!