In planning news in and around Frome this week:

The Mendip Planning Department is considering an application for 9 Baker Street in Frome (Ref. No: 2021/0667/FUL) to demolish an existing warehouse and build a house. The site is between Selwood Road and Castle Street, and currently is used as rear access to the McColls food store on Vallis Way. Part of the warehouse was once the site of a forge. Under a pre application, plans were submitted for a four bedroom family house on the site, arranged over three floors, alongside a separate single bedroom mews house.

At 15 Barn Close Frome they have applied to Mendip planners to build a single storey rear and side extensions, and a front porch following the partial demolition of outbuilding. Open for comment under Ref. No: 2021/0797/HSE.

At Burley on Lower Street in Buckland Dinham, the homeowners have applied to demolish an existing rear porch and to replace it with a single storey extension. Details under Ref. No: 2021/0856/HSE.

Planning decisions this week include:

No objection to proposed works to trees at 48A Broadway in Frome, which is a Conservation Area.

Approved, an application for a single storey side extension

at 44 Rodden Road in Frome.

Also approved, plans for a two storey and single story rear extension.

at 45 Westfield Road in Frome.

They have approved an application to demolish an existing extension and build a new front extension at Fairhaven on Oldford Hill in Oldford.

Planners have approved the plans to build a detached office/keep-fit studio in the garden at The Parsonage, Gare Hill Lane in Trudoxhill.

Approved, plans for a single storey rear conservatory at 7 Hawkesmead Close in Norton St Philip.

Planners have decided that prior approval is not required for an application for a single storey extension to provide an annexe

at 14 Cranmore View in Frome.

Approved, an application to fit new conservation rooflights to the kitchen roof at 3 Church Hill in Beckington.

The application for work on The Blue House on The Bridge in Frome (one of the town's two Grade I listed buildings) has moved ahead with

approval of details reserved by conditions 3 (external materials) on planning consent 2019/2610/FUL. Also approved the application for approval of details reserved by conditions 3 (external materials), 4 (external joinery) and 5 (pipes and rainwater goods) on planning consent 2019/2611/LBC.

An application to build a large office space, which would have required the partial infilling of a quarry at Barns Close Quarry in Leigh On Mendip, has been withdrawn.

And in case you missed it, the Local Democracy Reporter revealed that the Saxonvale development in the centre of Frome can now proceed as funding is secured. Click HERE for that story