Planning news in and around Midsomer Norton this week

Planning news in and around Midsomer Norton this week:

Outline planning has been put in for three homes at Highfields, on Silver Street, in Midsomer Norton. Under reference 21/03747/OUT, planning has been lodged by Mr and Mrs K Tapper (using the agent

Collier Reading Architects) for the three homes on land which is currently used as a garden.

In Paulton at 6 Brookside an application is in for a prior approval request for single storey rear extension. Details under 21/04032/HPD.

While an application for prior approval for a single storey rear extension at 44 Bristol Road, in Radstock has been withdrawn.

And if you ever drive towards Wells you will have noticed the wind turbine, and in Mendip planners are considering plans to convert a barn, close to that wind turbine into a live-work unit.

The change of use from agriculture to mixed use of business and residential at Beechbarrow Farm, Haydon Drove, Hillgrove has been submitted by Peter McCann.

Beechbarrow is a small hamlet comprising of four residential homes and various other structures. The buildings originated in the 1920s when two farm workers' cottages were built along with other farm buildings and stables.

Beechbarrow takes its name from a Bronze Age barrow with a stand of mature beech trees on top of it.

In 2009, the applicant purchased 37 acres of pastureland and some of the Beechbarrow barns, and named it Beechbarrow Farm.

Beechbarrow Farm now comprises of 32 acres of pastureland, a farm scale wind turbine and two modern steel portal agricultural barns.

Permission for the first of these barns to be turned into a live-work unit was granted under appeal in January, and the plan is for the applicant to live there.

This current application is for the second barn and, if approved, the building and the 12-acre field it sits in would be sold to finance the building of the first live-work unit for the applicant.