I feel very sad and very cross about Tim Lyddon and family’s tree house appeal (Free Press, June 5).

This has been erected on his own land for his young daughters to enjoy observing the local habitat, and, of course, during these times, there will be much extra to see.

So here we go again!

Apparently the tree-house is ‘outside the local settlement area defined within the West Somerset Local Plan’ and so does not meet the ‘specified criteria of said local plan’ what ever that means! ‘Urbanising’ they mention – oh, give us strength a-plenty.

Mr Lyddon has already said it will not be a permanent structure. Nor are poly-tunnels, but these are allowed within metres of housing, yet they stay. This tree-house is between an orchard and a wood, and visually annoying to no one. What ever is the problem?

How can what looks like a jolly good tree-house (and it will be, for Mr Lyddon has done excellent work for us when we lived in Minehead!) fall foul of the planning department?

West Somerset planners happily passed plans for a four bedroom detached house on the front lawn of a very small garden of a semi-detached property in Woodcombe that caused a complete community to protest over a number of years, but we still lost the fight.

This began in 2011, and this particular build has just started this very week!

Fight on, Mr Lyddon, your girls will get to the age when you can pull it down anyway, if you see my point!

Good luck to you!

Ros Robinson, Lydeard St Lawrence,