Yeovil and the Yeovil area in South Somerset face unprecedented development pressures, particularly from new housing.  The District Council's Local Plan provides for another 1,500 + houses in two urban extensions on top of the hundreds of houses already built or for which permission has been granted. The Campaign to Protect Rural England Somerset Branch ('CPRE Somerset') is calling for the creation of a Yeovil Green Belt to ensure that the town continues to enjoy sufficient green amenity space (a ' green lung'), and to prevent unrestricted urban sprawl resulting in the merger of the town and its' surrounding villages - villages that at the moment add very much to the character of this part of South Somerset.