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border-radius: 4px;
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filter: grayscale(75%);
margin: 0 4px;
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filter: grayscale(0%);
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.utilities .twittshare-btn {
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color: white;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 18px;
width: 0;
transition: width 1s;
overflow: hidden;
white-space: nowrap;
vertical-align: middle;
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content: “Shares: “;
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.twittshare-count:before {
content: “Tweets: “;
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width: 110px;
transition: width 1s;
display: inline-block;
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height: 42px;
padding: 0;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 32px;
vertical-align: middle;
float: right;
padding-left: 4px;
border-left: 1px solid
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.totalshare:before {
content: “Shares: “;
font-size: 14px;
}

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border-top: 1px solid
border-bottom: 1px solid
padding: 10px 0 5px;
vertical-align: middle;
}

.article-share .utilities {
padding: 0;
}

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display: none;
}

/*mobile tablet styling*/

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border-left: 0;
}

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font-size: 14px;
width: initial;
padding-Right: 8px;
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filter: grayscale(0%);
margin-bottom: 8px;
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display:none;
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border-top:0px;
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padding:0px;
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A planning application was submitted to build the large development at Brue Farm, off Huntspill Road in Highbridge, in 2011 and permission was granted in March 2013.

But councillors demanded more details over individual phases of the plans before the houses could be built, and it has taken nearly three years for the first to emerge – for a 49-home settlement in the north west of the site.

In July 2014, a £4.3million funding pot was secured to help accelerate the project.

Of the buildings proposed in the first phase, 46 are houses, with seven different designs across the development, with three flats offering smaller accommodation.

Developer Hallam Land Management plans to create a 64-acre development overall, including a school for 210 children, a nursery and play area, although these facilities do not feature in the plans for phase one – leading to questions over the knock-on effect to the town’s infrastructure.

Highbridge councillor John Parkes says there are worries about how the town would cope without the additional school places.

He said: “There are concerns over the first phase and the infrastructure in the town, as there is no mention of the primary school or nursery in the first phase.

“We have been promised infrastructure in the past and it hasn’t materialised so some people in the area are worried it won’t be built.

“There is a need for local housing, no question about it, but it’s whether there is the infrastructure to go alongside it.”

With other developments on the horizon at the town’s old Delta Engineering site and at the boatyard in Clyce Road, Highbridge could host more than 850 homes if all the projects are completed.

The school’s construction was among reasons listed for the green light being given when the full project was approved in 2013, as well as being part of its ‘five-year housing land supply’, although it remains to be seen whether any part of the work will be completed within that timescale.

More than £1million for other affordable housing will be unlocked when building gets underway after the sum was secured by the council as a condition of agreeing to development at Brue Farm.

The application will be reviewed by Burnham and Highbridge Town Council this week before Sedgemoor District Council has the final say.