Planning news in and around Midsomer Norton this week and applications include:

Over on the edge of High Littleton, The Wharf , Greensbrook, which is the site of a new development of 18 new homes has put in an application to discharge of conditions 3; 7; 14; 15; 16; 17; 18; 20; 25 of application 21/00889/FUL. 22/03059/COND. Those conditions include how rainwater is being harvested on site.

The Maltings , Mill Hill, in Wellow, has applied for discharge of condition 2 of application 22/02372/FUL ( which is building a Victorian style greenhouse) . Details under 22/03341/COND

.Planning decisions by B&NES include:

An application to put in a roof lantern at 16 Somer Avenue, Midsomer Norton and to clad two external walls in cedar wood has been permitted.

The application to build a side and rear extension at 3 Longfellow Road, in Westfield has also been permitted.

Under the Mendip planning board, Mount Pleasant Farm on the Wells Road in Norton St Philip has had an application approved to demolish a cattle barn, and convert and extend to form a holiday-let along with conversion and extension to stables to dual use residential annex and lettings with builds on a hay barn, dairy and threshing barn and for the creation of natural swimming pool and associated changing rooms and a new greenhouse and potting shed.

Within the application the history of the village is detailled:

The village of Norton St Philip itself of at least Anglo-Saxon origin, possibly the site of a monastery and certainly the location of medieval wool markets held by the nearby Carthusian monastery at Hinton Charterhouse, whilst its proximity to the line of the Dorchester – Bath Roman road makes a Roman origin highly likely. There are, in addition, prehistoric burial mounds on the summits of most of the surrounding hills for instance at Tuckers Grave, Stony Littleton and Pipehouse – attesting to dense prehistoric occupation; Roman villas and settlements at Woolverton and along the sides of the Avon valley; deserted and extant medieval settlements in all surrounding parishes; and a wealth of later medieval and post-medieval industrial archaeology in the form of mills, mine workings, quarries, canals and railways.

And the Jolliffe Arms on Kilmersdon Hill has had an application to put an oil tank and shelter to the rear of the pub, approved.