A DEVELOPER delivering 250 homes in Watchet has said it does not have any plans to build more once the estate is finished.

Summerfield Developments is currently constructing the Liddymore Park development at the southern end of Liddymore Road, near Knights Templar Community First School.

The Taunton-based developer previously delivered the Channel View estate in the town with 73 homes between Doniford Road and the West Somerset Railway line overlooking the Bristol Channel.

The design of Channel View with a spine road running through it means the estate could in future be extended further east to meet any local housing need.

But Summerfield managing director Ed Khodabandehloo said he had no intention of extending the estate at this time.

Mr Khodabandehloo said the company’s focus was entirely on Liddymore Park after its remaining phases secured detailed planning permission shortly before Christmas.

The Channel View estate was approved in August, 2014, with 25 of the new homes being delivered at an affordable rate over the ensuing three years.

The new homes are linked to Doniford Road via Helwell Street, which terminates at a fence on the eastern boundary of the site with a partial pavement in place, making it potentially relatively easy to extend the road into a neighbouring field.

The remaining parcel of land gradually narrows as it moves eastward, pinned between Doniford Road and the railway line until the two intersect at Doniford Beach railway station, a halt only accessible on foot from the road.

Since Channel View was completed, Edenstone Homes has secured permission to deliver 139 homes to the south, with Somerset Council approving plans in May of last year for a new development straddling Normandy Avenue.

While this would push the built-up edge of Watchet further east, Summerfield has said it has no plans to deliver further homes at the north-eastern edge of the town.

Mr Khodabandehloo said: “My company has no plans in Watchet other than completing the remaining 175 houses at Liddymore Park, for which we have detailed planning consent.”

Neither the Channel View site nor the neighbouring field were included in the West Somerset Local Plan, while the Edenstone site was identified as a ‘country and wildlife site’.

The only Watchet sites allocated for new housing in the local plan were Parsonage Farm on the B3191 Brendon Road, where an application for 230 homes is currently under consideration, and the B3191 Cleeve Hill, where plans for 136 homes and the realignment of the coast road were refused three years ago.

Somerset Council is currently in the early stages of creating a new county-wide local plan, which will supersede those inherited from the four previous district authorities.

An initial round of public consultation on the local plan, including any potential new sites in Watchet, is expected to take place in April of next year, with a further round scheduled for October, 2027.

The plan will then be submitted to the Planning Inspectorate in January, 2028, and is expected to be fully adopted by February, 2029.