News in Midsomer Norton and Radstock

Mike Gane of local solicitors Thatcher + Hallam is urging Trusts and Trustees to be aware of new reporting requirements

Mike Gane of Thatcher + Hallam, the local solicitors based in Midsomer Norton, is advising people acting as Trustees or involved in Trusts of forthcoming changes in Trust reporting requirements, which come into force in 2022.

Regulations passed in October 2020 mean that the legal obligation for trustees to comply with HMRC's reporting requirements under the Trust Registration Service has been expanded significantly. Previously, only trusts subject to tax under the 4th Money Laundering Directive were required to comply with the reporting regulations. Under the 5th Money Laundering Directive all UK Trusts (apart from trusts that meet certain exemptions, i.e. Charitable trusts) must be registered irrespective of whether there is a tax liability. This includes bare trusts and Declarations of Trust where the legal and beneficial owners are different, for example if there is co-ownership of property.

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Mike Gane of Thatcher + Hallam, the local solicitors based in Midsomer Norton, is advising people acting as Trustees or involved in Trusts of forthcoming changes in Trust reporting requirements, which come into force in 2022.

Regulations passed in October 2020 mean that the legal obligation for trustees to comply with HMRC's reporting requirements under the Trust Registration Service has been expanded significantly. Previously, only trusts subject to tax under the 4th Money Laundering Directive were required to comply with the reporting regulations. Under the 5th Money Laundering Directive all UK Trusts (apart from trusts that meet certain exemptions, i.e. Charitable trusts) must be registered irrespective of whether there is a tax liability. This includes bare trusts and Declarations of Trust where the legal and beneficial owners are different, for example if there is co-ownership of property.

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Further afield the million lights are now lit at Stourhead the NHS Trust gardens in Wiltshire

AS more and more events are being organised locally Nub News is bringing you a weekly round up of what's on in and around Midsomer Norton each weekend.

Every Thursday we will now bring you our top picks of the events in our What's On section for the coming weekend.

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South Gloucestershire Council leader Cllr Toby Savage (Image: South Gloucestershire Conservatives, free to use by all partners

A £50million green recovery plan for the region should finally be approved at the third attempt this Friday – if the political leaders turn up this time and can agree.

But even before the West of England Combined Authority (Weca) committee meets, or doesn't, new leaked emails have revealed ongoing tensions between metro mayor Dan Norris and council leaders.

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The former McColls in the High Street is almost cleared now (November 30)

In planning news in and around Midsomer Norton this week:

Over at the West Clewes recreation area the home of Welton Rovers, planners have agreed to an application for a multi use games area on the recreational area with surrounding three metre high fencing. The site is on the north side of North Road in Midsomer Norton, and planners were informed that there is currently an outdoor gym and a children's playground at the site. The multi use area would be in a part of the grounds which is currently grassed. In their decision they state : " Given the existing use of the wider site and the nature of the proposal the development will not cause harm to the character and appearance of the surrounding area." In Westfield 11 Glebelands, under 21/05329/CLPU, has applied for a lost conversion which will include Velux rooflights. Over in Peasedown Braysdown Stables Ltd, at Gassons, (under application 21/05296/FUL) has applied to convert part of grain store to form additional stables. Manor Farm House Nursing Home, on Church Street, in Radstock, has applied for discharge of two conditions on its planning application to build a link between five detached bedrooms and the care home itself. Under 21/05324/CONDLB it wants to discharge conditions 3 (Mortar Mix) and 4 (Sample Panel) of application 20/00038/LBA. The company is using a local architect firm CSH Architectural Services based on Kilmersdon Road, in Haydon for the work. Other local planning decisions made this week by B&NES include: Permitted - the creation of a permanent rural worker dwelling at Hill Farm, Phillis Hill, in Midsomer Norton. This follow the building of a temporary rural worker dwelling at that location (18/01562/FUL). Approved, at the Gasex Centre, on Frome Road, in Radstock, a non-Material Amendment to application 20/04924/FUL (Installation of three new antennas following the removal of three antennas. And the installation of six new MHA and six RRH together with ancillary development). Permitted, building of a two storey and single storey rear extension. at 3 Manor Terrace, Manor Road, in Writhlington, At 26 Wheelers Road, in Midsomer Norton, an application for a single storey rear extension has been permitted. And at 46 Waterside Road, in Westfield, an application to build a first floor side extension over the existing garage to create additional bedroom on the first floor has been permitted.
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The latest from Jacob Rees Mogg MP

This week, the Prime Minister wrote to all Members of Parliament to set out the Government's response to the new Omicron variant, which I had, until now, assumed was pronounced O-micron rather than Omi-cron and I think is the American preference. It is the variant that has recently been identified in southern Africa.

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A hosted outreach service for Coleford resumed this week after a solution was found to restore service. The outreach service has been operating from The Hub, Old School, Church Street, Coleford, Radstock, BA3 5NQ since 2018.

A Steiner school also uses the premises and there was a concern about safeguarding the youngsters with members of the public also using the premises. The outreach temporarily closed in October.

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