Planning news put in to Mendip planners this week includes:

The home owners of 10 Sheppards Barton in Frome have applied to replace degraded stone jambs and heads on the ground floor and first floor front windows. Details under Ref. No: 2021/2923/LBC. The property, which is listed, was sold last year.

An application has been put in for a variety of tree works at 16 High Street in Rode. Details under Ref. No: 2022/0136/TCA includes pruning the canopy of a Sycamore and pruning back a Magnolia.

An application is in to modify Schedule 1, Paras 1.1, 1.2 for the affordable housing of the S106 agreement relating to planning permission 2011/3124 for land at Church Farm Parkgate Lane also in Rode . Ref. No: 2022/0124/S106

Over in Coleford, an application has been put in to build a vegetable and agricultural equipment building at Ravens' Drift Lipyeate Cross. Details under 2022/0119/FUL

A little further afield and over at Green Ore, an application is in for a change of use of an existing agricultural steel-framed barn into a storage barn for heritage buses. The application, under 2022/0142/FUL, gives a full background to why the owner wants to keep the buses and engines in a new more environmentally-controlled environment. He takes his fleet out to local community events, fetes and vintage rallies. The collection was started in 1972 with the purchase of KFM 767, a 1949 Bristol L5G bus all with pocket money and when the owner was just 16.

Planning decisions made this week by Mendip Planners include:

Planners have approved an application to build a three bedroom house with a workshop at 20 Robins Lane in Frome.

The homeowners of 35 Westfield Road in Frome have been given permission to build a single storey rear extension.

Also approved, the building of a two storey side extension at 31 The Old Nurseries in Frome.

Approved, an application to build a single storey rear extension at

12 Woodland Road in Frome. Approved, an application for the extension to an existing dwelling and erection of a garden store/workshop at Hambletons on Marsh Road in Berkley. An application for Prior Approval for a proposed change of use of agricultural building into a dwelling house (Class C3) and for associated operational development at Court Farm Barns close to Blatchbridge Roundabout, has been refused. Planners have approved an application to vary condition 2 of planning approval 102609/003 ( which is for the conversion of barn to form self contained unit of accommodation (CAT B)) at 34 Vinney Lane Blatchbridge. They have also approved details reserved by conditions 3 (Reptile Mitigation Strategy), 6 (Nesting Bird Protection) and 8 (Materials - Sample of Render) on 2020/0970/FUL which is a one bedroomed two storey home on Rosedale Walk in Frome. The application for a non-material amendment to permission 2019/0620/REM, for two new semi-detached houses to become detached at 6 Frome Road in Rode, has been approved. An application to fell a Silver Birch, although somewhat confusingly the tree is also believed to be an Ash tree, at 1 Rook Lane in Frome has been agreed. Within the planning agreement it is stated that " Replacement planting should be carried out to avoid loss of biodiversity." And also in Rode, planners have approved an application for a change of use from offices into a microbrewery at Barrow Farm on Rode Hill. Within the planning documents they declare the new facility is primarily as a hobby interest to the owner rather than a fully-fledged business. The owner intends to have a brewing capacity of approximately 2.5 bbl (600 pints) once it is up and running. And finally an application to install four illuminated fascia signs and one internal digital promotional screen, at the former Carphone Warehouse site in Wessex Fields, has been approved. Yes - this means Greggs opening its doors up on the now closed site, it one step closer.