Call to block building on green fields until mill site regenerated
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00:00A very good morning to you once again, people of Somerset. It's Daniel Mumby, your local
00:06democracy reporter, back off a week's leave, out here for another live stream. Welcome
00:11once again to the beautiful coastal town of Watchet on the West Somerset coast. It's a
00:16relatively overclass day. The sun is starting to poke through and the temperature is gradually
00:20rising. But we're not here just to talk about the weather or the West Somerset Railway that
00:24you can see in front of me. Instead, we're talking about what's down this path. Now,
00:31if you may remember a stream that we did back at the very end of last year, the last stream
00:36of 2023, we talked all about the future of the many housing developments that are going
00:43on in Watchet, some of which are started, some of which are much more at an early stage
00:48of planning and working out what's going to be happening. Today, we're going to be focusing
00:52on one particular site, the former Wandsborough paper mill that lies just off the B3191 Brendan
00:59Road, which you can hear rumbling behind me as we walk down this public right of way down
01:04the back of these houses. Just off Brendan Road, you can see the beautiful flowers and
01:09the railway line just winding its merry way away from me. I don't know if we'll catch
01:14a steam or a diesel locomotive at any point today. But essentially, the plan for this
01:18live stream is to do a rather circuitous loop of the entire paper mill site, starting
01:25here on its southern side. We're going to walk all the way to St Decuman's Church, down
01:30the back past the mill stream area following the footpaths, and then come back up its northern
01:36edge along the mineral line, finishing up at Whitehall. And as usual with these streams,
01:43please drop any comments or questions that you have. As we go through, I'll respond as
01:47many as I can live. Those I don't get to live, I'll do retrospectively. And this stream
01:51hopefully will give you a bit of background on the paper mill site. If you're not familiar
01:56with watches, give you an idea of what might have changed since the general election last
02:01month. We are on the last day of August as we head once again into this dolorous tunnel.
02:08And it might also give you an idea of what the future holds, not just for this site,
02:12but for the other Brownfield and Greenfield areas on the edge of this historic coastal
02:18town. So just a bit of background for those who are totally unfamiliar with the site,
02:23those who didn't catch my live stream back in December. So the area where we're walking
02:28now, this footpath snaking its way past the paper mill, the Wandsborough paper mill, was
02:36once one of Watch It's main employers. Watch It was one of the main providers of coreboard,
02:41which is a form of cardboard. The town has had links to the paper industry for at least
02:47two, three centuries, going back to the 18th century, if I can get my maths correct. But
02:51unfortunately, the paper mill closed back in 2015. So nearly a decade ago, at a loss
02:57of 176 local jobs. And since then, there have been various discussions going on, various
03:04attempts to regenerate the site through a mixture of housing, commercial development,
03:12leisure uses, a whole manner of things. Now, one small section of the site at the western
03:18edge did get permission a few years ago for a battery energy storage facility. Essentially,
03:26if you have one of those, you can take power out of the National Grid where there is a
03:32surplus at off-peak times, store it in batteries, and then sell it back to the National Grid
03:38for a profit during peak times. So when everyone's boarding their kettles off the Coronation
03:43Street or whatever it is that people watch these days, I don't really watch prime television
03:49myself, but all that extra electricity is sold back to the grid. And you may have followed
03:55our coverage of council-owned facilities in Taunton and over in Fairham, and the mixed
04:03financial record that they have had. So that's a small part of the paper mill site, but the
04:09rest of this brownfield area, one of the largest sites in Watchit that hasn't yet been built
04:15on, has lain vacant pretty much since it shut its doors just before Christmas 2015. Now,
04:25there were plans put forward many years ago by a company called Tamir Homes to redevelop
04:32the site, which is just down to our right here, into 350 houses along with commercial
04:38units and leisure facilities and possibly a hotel. And I'll tell you more about that
04:42once we get past these gentlemen.
04:48Good morning, gents. Good, thank you. And you? Have a great day.
04:55People of Somerset are always friendly. And it's nice that people are keeping their dogs
05:02under control. As with all of the streams that we do, everywhere we walk today is either
05:09a public right-of-way listed on the council's right-of-way network, or in the case of the
05:15Mineral Line, a permissive path so you can walk on it at the landowner's discretion. So
05:22we're just coming back up the hill, hence why I'm sounding so out of breath, towards
05:30Brendan Road. And if we look down to the site, which is probably the closest I can get without
05:38committing trespass, Tamir Homes originally had plans to turn this land into 350 homes
05:49along with various other bits and pieces. Now, back in September 2023, Stratton Land
05:57Limited, which is a developer that's been working on new homes off the A39 Hopcock Road
06:04just up the road in Minehead, secured permission to store topsoil from that Minehead development
06:13on the Watchit site before us, just over those trees, and use it to raise a number
06:21of elements of the paper mill site that were in the floodplain. The idea being that if
06:27they, or any subsequent owner of the site, got permission, then it would be much easier
06:35to actually get the ground running and build, rather than having to spend more time and
06:39money on preliminary groundworks. Now, around the same time, Stratton Land Limited purchased
06:49the paper mill site from the Watchit Paper Mill Development Company. We expected that
06:57amended plans for around 280 homes would come forward shortly after that, but to date, since
07:05that purchase was finalised in the autumn of 2023, there has been very little material
07:13traction on the site. As you can see, it's all still brownfield, overgrown, and undeveloped.
07:23And this has come into sharper focus as permission has been granted, not only to the Liddemore
07:29Park site off Liddemore Road near Knight's Templar School, but also to the Edenstone
07:35development either side of Normandy Avenue and Cherrytree Way, at the eastern edge of
07:43the site, not far from the neighbouring village of Doniford. So those two sites are in the
07:50works, planning permission secured, and in the case of the Liddemore Park site, almost
07:56completely delivered its first phase, and with a further development of 230 homes being
08:04proposed at the Parsonage Farm site, a few hundred yards from where we're coming to now,
08:13there's been lively discussions... Shall we just let this postman go through? Good morning.
08:20There have been lively discussions about the future of this brownfield site, and of course
08:25all ties into what the new Labour government have been talking about, of wanting to get
08:31Britain building, delivering 1.5 million homes over this Parliament to solve the housing
08:39crisis and ensure that local people don't have to leave the towns and villages they
08:46grew up in just to be able to buy property. We're just standing outside St Decuman's Church,
08:54Grade 1 listed, absolutely glorious outside and inside. We won't be going in today, but
08:59just to put in context, those agricultural buildings you can just see poking over the
09:04hedge at the end there, back towards Brendan Road, that is the Parsonage Farm site where
09:10plans are currently being discussed for 230 houses, and that's on greenfield agricultural
09:17land. And understandably, the people that watch it, or certainly those that I've spoken
09:23to, I haven't talked to all 4,500 people who live here, unsurprisingly, those that
09:28I have spoken to are rather miffed that all these green sites are being built on, bringing
09:34the town closer and closer to merging with the neighbouring village of Willerton, something
09:39we also touched on last summer, while this brownfield site lies vacant and untouched.
09:48If you've only just joined me, it's Daniel Mumby here, your local democracy reporter,
09:54out and about in Watchit. The temperature is picking up, we are talking about the Wandsborough
10:00paper mill, which has lain vacant now for nearly a decade, and we're talking about the
10:07ongoing efforts to regenerate and redevelop that site to meet the future housing needs
10:14of this growing coastal town. We've had all the regeneration on the East Quay site with
10:19the Onion Collective, and we are just at the end of high season for tourism, so it's a
10:28case of not just providing for visitors as we go past St Ecumen's Well, just underneath
10:34the church, you can see it's just peeking through up there, but also providing for those
10:39who live and work here all year round. I very much recommend checking out the well, incidentally,
10:43it's a bit of a steep set of steps, and that's a tongue twister in and of itself, but well
10:49worth the visit. So, one of the reasons that we're talking about this today is that the
10:56future of the paper mill site, if I just let this jogger go past, was raised during the
11:03general election campaign by the lady who is now your local MP, Rachel Gilmore, who
11:10has elected the Lib Dem MP for Tiverton and Minehead on the 4th of July, replacing Ian
11:15Littlegranger. She made comments to the hustings held in Langford Bodville about the paper
11:21mill site, which we'll link to in the description, and we approached her in the last couple of
11:27weeks asking her to flesh out her views a little bit on what should happen with all
11:33the various development sites in Watchet, and I will bring you her views right now as
11:39we head down this path towards these gates. Essentially, we're going through a series
11:43of fields, following footpaths, we cut through a farm site, and then we end up on the Mineral
11:48Line and follow the West Somerset Railway back into the town. So, Rachel Gilmore, the
11:55new MP for Tiverton and Minehead, which includes Watchet, here's what she had to say on the
12:00matter. Liberal Democrat policy is to support the development of brownfield sites before
12:06encroaching on greenfield sites. I therefore support the proposed development of the paper
12:11mill site in Watchet. I would prefer the development of Parsonage Farm, the 230 homes that we discussed
12:18a few minutes ago, to be put on the back burner and revisited when or if there is an established
12:24need for even more houses once the paper mill site is complete. Any SIL money, that's the
12:30Community Infrastructure Levy, essentially funding that developers put aside for schools
12:35and other facilities, from any developments in the Somerset side of my constituency must
12:40be used to improve infrastructure and local services such as schools, doctors and dentists.
12:47There has been a recent opportunity at Bishops Lydiard to do just this by building a new
12:52much-needed nursery school, but sadly the Parish Council have decided not to use this
12:57money for this purpose, which I believe is a grave mistake. We will be reaching out to
13:01Bishops Lydiard Parish Council for their views on that, before they cry defamation on it.
13:07Rachel Gilmore continues, Labour has already committed to more money and jobs for local
13:12doctors and dentists and I will hold them to account. The Health and Social Care Committee
13:17is being chaired by a Lib Dem MP, which gives me much more opportunity to press these matters
13:21at the centre of government. The government, supported by the Lib Dems, has also announced
13:25further plans for further devolution and I believe with the right approach and a wider
13:30devolution than just county-wide, we will be able to deliver fair, appropriate and acceptable
13:36housing development across the South West.
13:41So that is Rachel Gilmore, the recently elected MP for Tibbeton and Minehead, giving her views
13:48on the paper mill site. Two things that are very clear from that. One is that it's very
13:54much Brownfield before Greenfield, which I'm sure many would agree is the correct approach.
13:59I'm just going to drop my voice slightly so we don't worry any of these sheep.
14:04And secondly, that any community infrastructure money, whether it's from Sill or Section 106
14:11from the paper mill site, must be reinvested locally. Something I think we would also all
14:17support, whether we live in Watchet or just as a principle for our own communities.
14:22If you just look in the distance, there's a train just running past that looks like a diesel
14:28locomotive heading into Watchet coming from Minehead, if I'm not mistaken, with Cleve Hill
14:35in the background. Cleve Hill, which is now open once again to cyclists and pedestrians,
14:43not to cars though, because of its proximity to the eroded coastline. And there was talk
14:50at one point when Somerset County Council did a feasibility study back in 2020 of using the
14:58paper mill site or part of it as the route for a new bypass that would link up with the bit of
15:05Cleve Hill that isn't falling into the sea. That has come to naught so far. Obviously the plans for
15:13the rerouting of Cleve Hill inland as part of a development of 136 homes has also fallen by
15:21the wayside as a result of plans for that site being refused twice by local councillors.
15:26And it's one of those issues that's going to rumble in the background for quite some time
15:30and certainly Somerset Council does not have a spare 60 million quid down the back of the
15:35sofa that it could just spend on a new road first thing on Monday morning. But we're getting
15:40slightly off topic so I'm going to vault this style, well I'm going to climb it, I'm not going
15:46to vault like a gymnast. Good luck to all our Paralympians incidentally. And then we will
15:52summarise where we've been so far both literally and narratively. If you haven't just joined me
16:00then it's Daniel Mumby here your local democracy reporter working his way through some dusty
16:06footpaths on the western edge of Watchit. We're doing a lap of the Wandsborough paper mill site
16:14talking about its past where things presently stand with the housing development proposed
16:20there from Stratton Land Limited and what could happen in the future. We've just given the views
16:26of Rachel Gilmore the very strong-minded Timothyn and Minehead MP who was elected
16:34last month because we're not quite into September yet. Parliament returns from recess on Sunday,
16:41on Monday I should say. I wish they worked on Sundays, same as a lot of us, but there we go.
16:47And in a moment I'm also going to bring you a statement that we received
16:53from the Parsonage Farm Action Group. Now if you saw our stream at the back end of last year
17:02you'll know that this is a group set up by local individuals who want to stop the Parsonage Farm
17:08site which at one point hosted the Watchit Music Festival, lest we forget. They want to stop that
17:14being built on with 230 new homes that have been vociferous in their opposition. We don't yet know
17:23when those plans will be coming before the Council's Planning Committee West for a decision.
17:29It's the Planning Committee that handles major housing applications within the former Somerset
17:34West and Taunton area. We are expecting a decision sometime either side of Christmas but
17:42beyond that it's like how long is a piece of string when you ask planning officers.
17:48And thank you to everyone who's stuck with me so far. Fortunately we haven't had any signal breaks
17:52and wading through recently cut grass which has dried out in the baking heat that we've had over
17:59this August bank holiday week. I haven't fallen over just yet so you can't take off like that
18:05you can't take off like that part of your bingo cards.
18:09What I'm going to do is I'm going to just get down this steep bit before launching into the
18:15action group statement so that I don't go arse over tea kettle which is rapidly becoming one
18:19of my favourite phrases. It is a lot steeper than I remember but this time I don't have to
18:25climb another stile because the farmer has either left this gate open or removed it entirely.
18:31And I will point out that we are not trespassing here this whole farmyard is part of a public
18:36right-of-way so as long as we don't mess with any of the animals or tamper with the machinery or
18:43do anything to the buildings or the people themselves we can walk through here unhindered
18:48and unimpinged which is wonderful and what a beautiful farm it is too. So here is what the
18:57So here is what the Parsonage Farm Action Group had to say
19:01in response to Ms Gilmore's comments that we read out a few minutes ago.
19:06Rachel Gilmore has been in touch with us indirectly and expressed her intention to meet
19:10with us in the coming weeks. It's commendable that the Liberal Democrats support brownfield
19:15developments over greenfield ones however this should be a given. The reasons for declining
19:21the panning application are compelling. The West Somerset local plan is outdated,
19:26the landscape has changed and the site lacks adequate access to services. While there is a
19:32national housing shortage, developing Parsonage Farm's precious farmland seems ill-suited.
19:38The excessive housing development in Watchet further underscores the need for careful
19:43consideration of where new homes are built. So that's the Parsonage Farm Action Group's
19:50statement as I switch hands to put my other phone back in my pocket. Pretty clear cut in there
19:56opposition to development at Parsonage Farm but also agreeing with Rachel Gilmore of the need
20:02to bring the Mineral Line development, Mineral Line, the paper mill farm development forward as
20:08soon as possible. I'm getting tangled in my words because we are coming up to the Mineral Line
20:14and if you remember back in, I think it was around July last year, around the time that
20:20Cleve Hill had been closed for six months, we did a whole stream walking the Mineral Line
20:26from its terminus near Old Cleve School in Washford into Watchet town centre. We're not going
20:36to go all the way to the town centre today but we are going to take advantage of this beautiful
20:41tree-covered route because we will eventually get to a point where the paper mill site is on our
20:47right and because the tree cover is slightly lower you'll be able to see a fair bit more of
20:52it from ground level and of course I'm sure as part of any development that gets approved on
20:58the paper mill site there will be some section 106 money available to preserve and enhance
21:04walking and cycling routes through and around the site including this excellent active travel route
21:10which I have now walked several times and like the stop line way and charred down my neck of
21:15the woods I love coming here. Good morning. If you've only just joined me it's Daniel Mumby here.
21:23You're increasingly hot but not overly bothered. I'm a local democracy reporter. I'm out in Watchet
21:30on the West Somerset coast. We're talking all about the Wandsborough paper mill which closed
21:35back in December 2015. We've been talking about the various efforts to get it off the ground and
21:41redeveloped. The latest proposal on the table from Stratton Land Limited being for around 280
21:46homes along with leisure facilities possibly an information centre maybe a hotel depending on
21:51what's deemed to be commercially viable and while the uncertainty for that remains as we've read
22:00from the two statements that we've had through both the local MP Rachel Gilmore and the Parsonage
22:06Farm Action Group are fully behind the Brownfield site being redeveloped first before any further
22:13Greenfield sites in Watchet are built upon. We talked earlier in the stream and when we tackled
22:19this in detail last December about the 130 odd new homes that are going out on Normandy Avenue
22:29delivered by Edenstone. We've talked about the Liddymoor Park site off Liddymoor Road
22:36delivering eventually 250 homes plus a new car park for the primary school which has already
22:42been completed and opened. Nice that some of the community infrastructure is delivered ahead of
22:46schedule and as Watchet continues to grow and as it becomes much more of a cultural hub with
22:55the East Quay and the various festivals and other events that are held on the quayside
23:01promoting all of those lovely small businesses it will become more essential to plan properly
23:08where new housing goes how much of it's needed how much of it is affordable and ensuring that
23:14Brownfield sites which can be such an eyesore such a blow on the landscape if they stay undeveloped
23:20for absolutely ages are targeted. Now one of the things that we're expecting either in the
23:28Chancellor's first budget on October 30th or just after that is more information about
23:35the government's accelerator funding for Brownfield sites and how they're going to
23:39be working with Homes England, its housing agency, to focus on unlocking big developments
23:46not just in urban areas and cities but in small towns like this because if the housing targets
23:53are going up across the board quite understandably Somerset Council will be saying to the government
23:57well you want us to build more houses make it easier for us to unlock Brownfield sites
24:03like this area in Watchet like the Saxon Vale site over in Froome which is continuing to rumble on
24:11I'll be appearing on a podcast later in the year talking about where things stand with Saxon Vale
24:17after Acorn pulled out a day after it was given permission to do the site
24:21there's all the detail about that on Somerset Live. The point is that on top of
24:25just the local MP and local activists barking on about it quite justifiably I might add we also
24:32need to keep a close eye on what the national government is looking at in terms of tackling
24:37these problems because while this may not be an area of Somerset or indeed the wider south west
24:43which is a traditional labour heartland it has elected the odd labour councillor in the past
24:48back in the district council days it is still in the government's interest to ensure housing is
24:55delivered across the board not just in the areas where it's easiest and cheapest to do it but also
25:02in those where the need is greatest and where the obstacles are the most challenging. As you can see
25:10here one of the challenges with Watched is that it has a blend of its industrial heritage including
25:19the mineral line that we're walking on at the moment and its precious green spaces and the
25:23mineral line kind of epitomizes both because we are walking along a railway line a track bred I
25:30should say that used to carry iron ore from the Brendan Hills all the way to the coast but now
25:37it's been preserved as essentially a green haven for pedestrians cyclists dog walkers
25:44wheelchair users mobility security users it's a great act of travel corridor and I think that
25:51I mean I haven't seen further details about Stratton land's proposals since they acquired
25:55the site but if they want to do justice to the paper mill area I think they've got to get that
26:00balance right between honoring Watched's industrial heritage delivering the affordable homes that we
26:07need in the town and providing enough green space reclaiming it from all that concrete and sand and
26:14steel some of which may be contaminated of course because it's a former industrial site
26:19and complementing the green spaces that it already has you can see the mill stream just
26:24trickling past us on our right hand side and very shortly if I hold the camera at head height
26:30you'll be able to see into the site and I might be able to point out to you
26:34where a lot of the soil was deposited from the Hopcock road development a few miles up the road
26:41and we understand that that is is moving to completion pretty quickly so hopefully Stratton
26:47will then be able to turn their attention to getting this off the ground assuming of course
26:52that we don't get another mayday situation where a community group comes along
26:56and wants to put its own proposals forward I'm not against that and if you are watching this
27:01stream and you get inspired and say why don't we do what Mayday Saxonvale did if I watch it
27:06then I will do nothing but encourage you but I would only say as a note of caution prepare
27:13for a long fight and that's not an aspersion on Stratton any more than it would be on Acorn but
27:20as we all know from local government decisions take a long time to come to fruition
27:24there can be gaps of months or even years between planning permission being granted
27:30and finally being able to lay the first foundation so if you want something built quickly maybe it's
27:37not an option to consider but I could of course be completely wrong and if you want to take a
27:42stand on this do let me know. I am rambling a little bit because I'm just waiting for
27:49I'm just waiting for the tree cover to drop enough that we can actually see into the site
27:54and here we go so that is the paper mill as it currently stands you can see part of the
28:01old buildings are still in place including one of the chimneys from where the core board would
28:04have been produced the site is very overgrown with crumbling edifices and like I say there
28:12may be some contaminants within the soil one of the things that Holmes England has been pretty
28:18decent at over the last few years including with Saxon Vale is providing funding to pay for that
28:25decontamination up front along with the clearing of vegetation the disconnecting of any utilities
28:31within the site so that when a developer comes forward a it doesn't have to pay for that up front
28:36which means it still has money left over to provide the affordable housing it promised to
28:42and b things can actually get moving relatively quickly now we don't know off the top of my head
28:49certainly how many of those buildings will need to be preserved I don't think any of them are listed
28:56uh it's a relatively old factory but like I say it's it's been closed for so long that one would
29:00imagine you could just demolish them relatively safely but there may be some tokenistic effort to
29:07preserve some elements of the history whether through information boards or
29:12like the uh the stone and red brick building at the
29:15hedges and decamons church there may be some kind of thing we can do with public art watch it is
29:21very good at public art if you've visited the seafront and the quayside and seen the statues to
29:28Yankee Jack and Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner absolutely gorgeous and of course the
29:34smaller statue in memory of Derek the Goose and if you want to know more about Derek the Goose
29:40it's on our website you can see just poking through the trees there how much of the site
29:46remains flattened concrete so it makes entire sense that a lot of this would need to be raised
29:53up out of the flood plain perhaps not on the scale as we're currently seeing near where I
29:58live in Shard where there's a care home being built a few hundred yards from my house and
30:03they're having to basically raise the whole area by about a meter so that it doesn't immediately
30:07flood and I've got a cyclist coming up behind me so I just pull in for a second
30:15you're welcome
30:18this gives us another opportunity to just poke through and see uh in hindsight what I should
30:24have done is he's got a selfie stick and pointed the camera on this but I would have been terrified
30:28that the iphone I use would have fallen from its clip and I would have lost it either in the
30:33mill stream or in these brambles and either way I would not have got it back you can just see if
30:39I pause here you can get a good view of some of the remaining buildings on the site warehouses
30:46staff quarters not anyone lived here exactly but uh you know for uh for meals and anything like
30:53that and you can just see to give an idea of the terrain that is st decuman's church poking over
30:58the top so we've actually come downhill a long way from where we started it certainly gives you
31:04an idea of the challenges involved in bringing forward this site which is one of the reasons
31:09why it's taken so long it's great to see so many people out enjoying the mineral line today
31:18and uh long may that continue as we go into the autumn in the winter
31:24unfortunately the path is largely stony underfoot so while it may not be the smoothest
31:30ride if you're on a bicycle it won't be turned to mud the second it rains
31:35if you've only just joined me it's daniel mumby here your local democracy reporter
31:39i'm out in the beautiful coastal town of watch it we've been talking all about the wandsborough
31:44paper mill which is just over there to the right hidden by brambles and the mill stream
31:49we've been talking about the future of this brownfield site we've given the views of the
31:56parsonage farm action group which wants this built before any further homes go on green spaces
32:02we've given the views of rachel gilmore who is the newly elected mp for tibetan and minehead which
32:07includes the town of watch it along with pretty much all the neighboring towns and villages from
32:12here to exmoor and we are now nearing the end of our journey we'll be coming out onto
32:21the street of whitehall fittingly considering how much we've been talking about the government
32:27i don't imagine i'll run into many civil servants today but there's always a chance
32:32and you can just see again to reinforce how close we are to the railway line
32:38the railway bridge that we will just pass under in a minute funnily enough the last time i was
32:43out here i timed it right there was a train going across just as i arrived but i don't think we're
32:48going to be quite so lucky today but uh obviously the west somerset railway association and all the
32:55partners involved with the running and the maintenance of this fantastic heritage line
33:00will be closely consulted as part of any redevelopment i doubt that they would
33:05uh need to give access under the archway that lies further to the south of us but uh it's always
33:14worth checking these things just to be doubly sure involves any aggro avoids any aggravation later
33:20and i'd also like to point out i know we're not quite into september but it is beautiful to see
33:24how many delicious looking blackberries are starting to come out i should have bought a
33:28tupperware and harvested a few as we were going along but uh as always later in the year so there
33:33we have it we've come to the end of our live stream at the end of the mineral line and uh you
33:39can carry on from here like we did the other year into the town centre via the what was the royal
33:46british legion club i might pop up there in a second and get a drink and maybe even an ice
33:50cream who knows but i hope that this stream has been informative to you this uh live stream will
33:56be available indefinitely on this facebook page once we finish broadcasting so if there's any
34:01part that you missed or wanted to revisit for any reason do go back to and give a scroll leave a
34:05comment if you want to and i will do my best to respond to any i didn't get to retrospectively
34:11in terms of future live streams i'm not sure whether there'll be one next weekend because i'm
34:16away all of sunday i'm going to the test match at the oval hoping that england could have a clean
34:22sweep against sri lanka because it looks like we're going to win at lord's but cross fingers
34:26um either way there will be another stream within sometime within the next two weeks so keep an eye
34:30out here on somerset live in the meantime this has been daniel mumby your local democracy reporter
34:35wishing you goodbye from watch it and enjoy the rest of your weekend goodbye for now take care