Frome Nub News does a regular update on all the local planning decisions and applications made to Mendip District Council.

This week in planning news:

Planners have ruled there is no objection to plans to fell 20 Leylandii trees at 61 Lower Keyford, in Frome. They were told that the excessively tall trees have grown so high that they have deprived the area of much natural light.

An application to build a rainwater harvesting canopy at Ivy House Farm on Berkley Lane in Beckington Ref. No: 2021/0271/FUL, has been approved.

Approved, an application to demolish a single storey extension and an existing garage and build a new a two storey extension to the Eastern elevation of the home at 24 Marsh Road in Rode .Ref. No: 2021/0418/HSE.

Prior Approval has been refused for the change of use of an agricultural building into two new homes at Church Farm on Berkley Street in Berkley. That application is under Ref. No: 2021/0453/PAA.

Planners have decided that no prior approval was needed for an application for a single storey rear extension, which would extend beyond the rear wall of the original house by six metres, at

7 Church Street Stoke St Michael ( Ref. No: 2021/0613/PAH ) .

An application to build a manager's live-work dwelling ancillary to the Lilley's Cider Plant, at Roewood Farm Estate on Bunns Lane in Witham Friary, has been withdrawn.

Approved with conditions, an application to demolish an existing garage and build a replacement at Tandridge Broadway in Chilcompton.That is under Ref. No: 2021/0352/HSE .