'Real risk' as homes to be built without link road

Hundreds of new homes are to be built without a link road, creating a "real risk" to people's lives, a councillor has said.

The final stage of Taunton's Nerrols Farm development, which includes 292 homes, has now been approved after years of debates and complaints. But without the proposed link road, all of the new residents will have to use a single road.

Parish councils and Taunton's MP objected to the plans progressing without the new route linking Lyngford Lane to Bossington Drive.

But, councillor Simon Coles, chair of Somerset Council's planning meeting, said if they refused the application, there was 99% chance they will lose on appeal.