In planning news in and around Frome this week:

The builders and timber merchant Sydenham's which has a network of 37 branches throughout Dorset, Hampshire, Wiltshire, Oxfordshire, Somerset, Avon, the Isle of Wight and Guernsey, will be expanding their presence in Frome.

They are planning a new distribution site and have put in an application to create a parking area in what was once a former quarry on Vallis Road.

It is for the space alongside the T H White agricultural repairs site, which closed in April 2018, at postcode BA11 3EN.

In documents associated with the planning application to Mendip, the company said it will be running 10 flatbed lorries, together with two articulated lorries, with additional trailers ready to be loaded or unloaded. It is anticipated that there will also be the need for around ten parking spaces for their employees.

In other planning news: An application has been made to build a garden cabin at 13 Somerset Road, in Frome, which is a conservation area.

A planning application has been put in to build a rear single storey extension at 3 Wedmore Close in Frome.

An application has been made for change of use of double garage to form a single residential dwelling at number 25 on Clink Road in Frome.

In Buckland Dinham there has been an application to change an office building at Brookover Farm into a three bedroomed house.

While in Trudoxhill an application has been put in for prior approval for a proposed change of use of agricultural buildings to two dwellinghouses (Class C3) and for associated operational development at Longwaite Farm in Foghamshire Lane.

Planning decisions made by Mendip Council this week include:

Approved : The building of a detached garden building at 7 Blagdon Walk in Frome.

Approval with conditions:

On land at Feltham Drive in Frome the building of an attached dwelling with associated access and parking.

Approval with conditions : A new single storey outbuilding at 48B Broadway Frome.

An application to build a single storey rear/side extension at 14 Winscombe Court in Frome BA11 2DZ, approved with conditions.

In Buckland Dinham plans to build an equestrian young stock barn.

at Hill House Farm Hill House Farm Lane have been approved with conditions.