Planning news in and around Midsomer Norton this week:

Over in Radstock an application is in to build six new homes on land to the west of Providence Bungalow, on the Frome Road. The plans are for all of them to be three bedroomed homes, each of three storeys. 22/04390/FUL The site is currently open countryside and on the side of the valley and is sloping gradually down to the north. The total area in question is 0.27 hectares.

In the application the developer addresses the mining heritage of the proposed site. There were two collieries around here, one approximately 160m to the west of the site, adjacent to Wellow Brook. That has since been approved for residential use for 10 dwellings under application ref: 17/05597/FUL, and is currently in use by Ryman Engineering Services and is part of an industrial estate. The other was Writhlington collieries, over 200m to the north east , along Mill Road.

The site is also significant because, as is stated in the application, the hillside north of Frome Road is regarded within the conservation area statement as of "intrinsic importance to the special character of the area", as the old haulage line/tramway ran along that route, north of Frome Road, down the hillside from those Writhlington collieries.

Paulton Rovers Social Club, on Winterfield Road, in Paulton has put in an application for replacement floodlighting system consisting of 24 new LED floodlights which will be fitted to six existing columns (four lamps per column). 22/04278/FUL

19 Gladstone Street, in Welton has an application in for single storey side extension (Certificate of Lawfulness for a Proposed Development). Details under 22/04409/CLPU

Manor Farm Barn , Church Street, in Radstock has put in an application to demolish an existing single storey extension and replace it with another. More details under 22/04430/FUL

Number eleven Gournay Court, in Farrington Gurney, has put in an application to demolish an existing conservatory and build single storey side and rear extension. 22/04396/FUL

Planning decisions made this week by B&NES include:

Conditions have been discharged on 2 (Wildlife Enhancement Scheme (Pre-Commencement)) and 3 (Internal and External Lighting (Bespoke Trigger)) of application 21/05276/FUL . That is for a garden room extension, remodelling and reduction of a modern extension, and reconfiguration of modern partitions internally, new and replacement rooflights, and redecoration at Wisteria House, on the High Street, in Wellow.

An application to incorporate a strip of wasteland into the garden of 19 Heritage Close, Peasedown St John, including erection of new boundary fence, has been withdrawn.