WATCHET could get a £1.2 million new road and a facelift for an ancient monument if planners agree to a 133-home development on a controversial greenfield site.
At their meeting on Monday (January 8), Watchet Town Council will hear first details of a scheme to build houses, flats and bungalows on two sloping fields at the top of Cleeve Hill on the B3191 Blue Anchor road.
The scheme would involve replacing a section of the road - which has been seriously affected by coastal erosion - with a carriageway running further inland and linking up with roads in the development.
But civic leaders claimed this week that on top of existing proposals for nearly 400 new homes, the town’s infrastructure could reach breaking point with a potential increase in the population of nearly 2,000.
Planning consultant Martin Lee is due to give a presentation on the latest scheme to Monday’s council meeting as part of a pre-application consultation.
The scheme would deliver mixed affordable and open-market homes ranging from five-bedroomed houses to one-bedroom flats.
The project would also include a £30,000 contribution to the enhancement of Daws Castle - the remains of a ninth century fort on a nearby headland - which would undergo improvement under a long-term management plan.