Tag: Brewery Field

All Quiet on the Tesco front??

It’s 5 years now since the Sedgemoor Splash was pulled down to make way for a Tesco Extra on Bridgwater’s Brewery Field and it’s 5 weeks since the guns fell silent on a field where only daffodils now grow in the phoney war of ‘will they won’t they’ actually come. Westover councillor Brian Smedley  looks […]

Town Green Bid for Brewery Field Rejected by County

As widely predicted, Somerset County Council has rejected the application for town green status for the Brewery Field. This was the position as recommended by the inspector who looked at the case at a hearing in Bridgwater earlier this year. Bridgwater Labour councillor Ian Tucker, who attended the meeting, said, “The application was basically rejected […]

Town Green Hearing goes ahead despite Residents ‘No-Show’

TOWN GREEN APPLICATION – HEARING 19.2.2013 When Westover residents Tricia Walsh and Trevor Monaghan, supported by over 50 witness statements from local people, submitted an application to Somerset County Council for the Brewery Field to be registered as a Town Green in July 2011, they were making a stand against Sedgemoor and it’s plans to […]

Town Green Status for Brewery Field – Public Inquiry Set for 19th Feb

Notice is hereby given that an Inspector, Mr Paul Wilmshurst has been appointed to determine the application by Mr T Monaghan of 19 Admiral’s Court, Bridgwater and Ms P Walsh of 16 Admiral’s Court, Bridgwater to register land known as Brewery Field, Bridgwater (a plan of which can be inspected as detailed below) as a […]