This evening (August 26) the Mendip Planning Board will be discussing several local planning applications including the application for pitching a mobile home and a touring caravan on land south east of Vinney Carlton Lane, in Blatchbridge. This is application 2018/1559/FUL .

They will also be looking at a proposal for over 60 homes at land off Anchor Road, Lipyeate Cross to Luckington Cross, in Coleford, application 2019/2345/OTS.

Meantime on the main planning site, planning decisions this week include:

The long running planning saga surrounding a site at Marston View is back with planners who have refused an application to put up two buildings at Marston Bigot Frome, BA11 5DB.

An application was in to build two new 'day rooms' on the site which is an area of land on the south side of the A361, east of the Marston layby and lies within, and at the northern edge of Marston Park, a Grade II Registered Historic Park and Garden. In giving their decision planners explained: " The site has been occupied as a residential caravan site since March 2007 and granted permanent planning permission in 2018. There are currently two mobile homes on site, sites for two touring caravans and what the applicant refers to as an 'office' building. This application seeks full planning permission for the construction two day rooms on site to serve the number authorised mobile/static homes on already allowed."

They add; "This site has a planning history dating back to the first unauthorised occupation of the site in March 2007. with two applications refused, a current enforcement notice (that has not been complied with) requiring cessation of the residential use, and three appeal decisions concluding that the various proposals made would be harmful

to the setting of Marston House."

If you want to see the documents associated with the decision it is under reference 2020/1008/FUL.

An application to build a wall, reduce the height of existing wall and to put in replacement gates at Glebe Barn on the Tellisford Footpath, Frome, has been approved with conditions.

An application to paint the existing dark grey external windows a traditional white to the front and the rear of 6 Whittox Lane Frome has been withdrawn.

There is no objection to cutting back a Tulip tree at Selwood House Selwood Street in Mells.

There is no objection to reducing the Walnut tree in the garden of Milestones by approx 2.5 metres at 13 Bath Road in Beckington.

Approved with conditions; planners have decided that six trees can be cut back, trimmed and limbs removed at 37 Fromefield, Frome.

Planners have ruled that an application to convert a garage to ancillary residential use at The Tallat House, Silver Street, Kilmersdon is not lawful.

Applications put in to the planning department this week include:

Felling an Elder at 80 Broadway in Frome. That is Ref. No: 2020/1641/TCA.

Under reference 2020/1636/TCA the owners of 21 Nunney Road in Frome have applied to cut around four metres from two Goat Willows.