Planning news in and around Midsomer Norton this week:

Plans for Manor Farm, on Millards Hill, in Welton to expand their provision of education from the existing nursery onwards to creating learning spaces for young adults. Under application 22/02857/ASNCOU there is an application for a change of use from farm buildings into a school.

The site is already working as the Free Rangers Forest School Nursery which has operated from and around Welton Manor Farm house and the adjacent buildings since opening in 2011 (application 09/0141/FUL). That now looks after 72 children between the ages of 6 months and four years, and is supported by 28 staff.

Under the planning application they want, over five years to build six separate classroom bases and a gathering space for whole school functions. Each key stage base would hold a class group of eight children bringing the total maximum capacity of the school to 48 children and young adults.

In the application form the company writes: " Each year we would design and build the next key stage base alongside our families and local community members; making this 'The School That Built Itself.'

But additionally they want to offer education to those post 16 to 25 year olds in the form of a community supported agricultural project and an onsite café . Adding " These work opportunities onsite tie in heavily with our ethos of sustainable and regenerative farming and agriculture across our 27 acres and dovetail nicely with the council's environmental agenda."

Belle Vue Cottage, at 17A Green Tree Road, in Welton has put in an application for a certification of lawfulness for a loft conversion. 22/02721/CLPU

Over in Paulton at 13 Brookside Close under 22/02745/FUL there is a resubmission of an application to build a new four bedroomed home.

Also in Paulton, Eagle Plant, at B & P House, in Old Mills, Under 22/02690/VAR has applied for variation of conditions 3, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15 of application 19/01802/FUL (Demolition of existing B1/ B8/ Sui Generis class use building and erection of proposed B1/ B8 class use commercial units (revised plans)).

In planning decisions made this week by B&NES:

15 High Meadows, in Midsomer Norton, has been given permission to build a single and double-storey side extension, partial garage conversion and to relocate the front door.

At 7 Springfield Buildings , in Old Mills, Paulton a retrospective planning application for a new shed has been approved.

In Radstock 13 Waldegrave Terrace, has been given permission to build a new front porch.

Also in Radstock another step towards work starting at the old Radco site with approval of an NMA for the store on Wells Road. This one for Revised Access to the site.

Finally in case you missed it the new health centre in Radstock, Hope House has opened to patients. You can see photos of the inside of it including the new consulting rooms by clicking HERE The centre has received £2.4 million from the NHS England and NHS Improvement Estates and Technology Transformation Fund as well as £4.3 million of investment from Hope House Surgery, Bath and North East Somerset Council, Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and the Radstock and Westfield Big Local.