I am not from here, but I moved here ...it took us a year to sell our house.. just like Kevin is trying to do. This place is now our home, I am sure with his parents living here that he would want to be close to them. I don't know why this is a point that is always brought up?

I am not from here, but I moved here ...it took us a year to sell our house.. just like Kevin is trying to do. This place is now our home, I am sure with his parents living here that he would want to be close to them. I don't know why this is a point that is always brought up?

This constituency is called Yeovil and for that reason it is often the case that I am referring to the whole constituency when using that name. I would like to rename the constituency South Somerset but that is for after the election.

I know this constituency very well as I rent a home in Somerset and have spent nearly three years working here two days a week at no cost to you. My parents live here.

David Laws did not come from this area until he inherited the seat from Paddy Ashdown.

We will see more shops in Crewkerne when we elect a Conservative Government who can get out economy moving again.

I think one thing I am noticing more with the towns (Crewkerne, Yeovil etc) is quite a few of the empty shops. Crewkerne is a busy place esp with Waitrose there now but still there are a number of shops that lay empty or are being hosted as a charity shop (Yes we give to charity but I do think they can look a bit tatty sometimes if that is all the shopping you get) It is a shame that an empty shop can't be used for something a bit more interesting. Or better still find a way to help small companies to be able to come back. There are a lot of people here but with no shops then a lot of people just pass through.

I agree with you whole heartedly but given the numbers of houses that the Government want us to build I am not sure even the towns can cope. Whatever else, destroying villages is not the way of doing things.

I believe that expanding existing towns is less destructive to the environment as these areas tend to be less wildlife rich then rural areas, also most people live in towns because they are not particularly bothered by peace and quiet or living in a small community. They like the hussle and bussle and enjoy having facilities on their doorstep, I know this because my grandparents chose to live in the town for this exact reason. Towns are also better equiped to cope with large housing estates due to having better transport links, jobs and other facilities.

Please continue to help protect our rural villages from bad development. Our villages are the envy of the world but are constantly targeted by developers who want to make a fast buck.

I think my concern is that too often the views of the rural community are ignored in Government and this breeds a sense of resentment in the country. The Housing example is a very good one. The current Government has set a target to build another town the size of Yeovil in South Somerset, to meet their government targets. Fortunately the current recession has probably knocked that on the head. But the point is we all want our children to grow up and be able to be housed but citizens want to feel they are part of how that is planned and not lectured and told like naughty children, that you get what you are given, where the Government wants to put it.

The simple fact is that I believe the days of Government directing the citizen to do what the Government wants have got to end - people resent that way of doing things. If Government wants to do things it has to learn to bring people with them and work hard to convince them that it is the right thing to do. The recent example fo Gordon Brown doing little to help the British people understand why we are fighting in Afghanistan is another good one.

I do not know in what sense you mean this divide to be, but speaking on behalf of the rural population this suits many just fine! Why should we be presurised into being being more urban when we like our rural life very much. It is horrible when councils begin their "improvement schemes" in rural villages building masive estates of social and normal housing. Many small villages in Somerset are hardly recognisable as villages anymore and are fast becoming sprawling towns. True villages are becoming very rare.

Small villages have a nice sense of community, and suit those that don't like the hussle and bussle of towns, we enjoy the peace and quiet and love our natural suroundings, we want them to stay just that natural! Why must councils insist on grabbing every spare bit of farmland and covering it up in concrete. Every minority seems to have rights but what about the rights of rural people who don't want to live in a built up place? Who enjoy living in small communities and want to live along side the natural world. This right or choice, is slowly but surely being taken away as villages become larger and larger and farmland is sold off to developers. We already know that the government plans to build a large proportion of the three million houses needed on Green belt land. I am so worried about this as I dread to think what the impact of this will be on rural places. I hope that if this really needs to be done they concentrate this building on brownfield sites within towns or on the grean belt areas on the outskirts of existing towns rather than masacre our villages and wildlife anymore then they already have.