Primary Partners

Somerset County Council employs around 17,000 staff in 550 local offices, schools, residential units and libraries to provide excellent services that are accessible, responsive and sustainable for all the residents of Somerset and to ensure Somerset is a healthy and vibrant place to live, work and visit.

Somerset County Council is proud to support Project Taunton, which will take Taunton from a traditional market town to a modern, buzzing hive at the forefront of the 21^st century. Project Taunton is necessary, ambitious but realistic and Somerset County Council is one hundred percent committed to seeing Taunton flourish as a key urban area in the South West