Local planning news in and around Midsomer Norton and is there news to takeaway from an application for the former Argos store ?

Planning news in and around Midsomer this week and the garage in Westfield has put in an application to remove the car wash and instead install electric charging points.

Under 23/02927/FUL Elm Tree Filling Station, on the Wells Road, in Westfield, wants to build a single storey rear extension to the existing sales building following removal of Jet wash bay. It wants to put in new EV Chargers and a canopy.

Along Midsomer Norton High Street an application is in for a change of use for number 32. Hold on to your hats - that's the old Argos and the application is for a change of use to a restaurant ! Obviously there have been plans for this site previously, which included it being turned into a gym, but they came to nothing.

A lot of the application has been blanked out (Details under 23/02914/CLPU) but the company applying for the change is Universal Consolidated Group Limited which buys and sells real estate. The application was only posted on August 7, so watch this space.

Planning decisions made by B&NES this week include:

Somer View, at 39A Nightingale Way, in Westfield has been given the agreement to do some remedial work on the Lime tree at the property, specifically by reducing the main canopy by up to 2 meters.

Other planning news and the details of the new play equipment has just been revealed for Tom Huyton park in Radstock. As Nub News reported the council earmarked funds for replacing the equipment which had been reaching the end of its lifespan, and it had been hoped that could be done by the spring.

But, in a case of much better late than never, these are the plans, due to be put in at the end of September, and there is even a Radstock Railway 'ticket' office with all the train times too. The park, so popular with local families dates back to 1988 and much of the play kit was well past its best.

Some of the replacements will not happen immediately, it will be a phased development over the next three years, and will include a replacement zip wire and a new multi play unit. The wetpour around the park is also undergoing a repair to ensure safety. 

But maybe most exciting of all it will have a train station, a reference to the original line that ran through the park and the times and platforms are from the actual trains which ran on the line... amazing.