Further to my blog last month, Gladman’s opportunistic application to fill the Green Gap between Wells and Haybridge with 90 dwellings was lodged with Mendip on the 3rd of this month under reference 2020/0484. The application will be discussed by St Cuthbert Out Paris...
In late 2019, central government changed the rules as to calculation of housing need supply. As a consequence, 56% of local planning authorities no longer have a 5 year housing supply. Mendip is one of these. Speculative developers are now taking advantage of this s...
This application - refused on 2 previous occasions - is returning to the Planning Board at Shepton Mallet on Wednesday 20th of November at 6 pm.....with a recommendation to approve!
Submission by Wells Civic Society on the pre-submission draft of the Mendip Local Plan Part 2.
Paragraph 10.5.5 refers, inter alia, to the draft Wells Neighbourhood Plan and comments that “work on the plan is under way”. The Steering Group, made up of representati...
The Wells Journal of 8th November bore the headline “Plans for 220 new homes revealed for green field site.” This is, as you might imagine, “fake news” as the development was granted outline consent (2014/1522) on appeal (3129620) some two years ago.
The application for the one at Palace Farm has been approved as has one at the Cold Store (2018/0440)………….as have ones at Tesco and beside the Cold Store.No excuse for dirty cars now!
Pubs etc.
An application has been submitted for renovation of The Mermaid and...
Many will be aware of the parlous state of the King’s Head. I have contacted Cllr Nigel Taylor who is the portfolio holder for Planning Enforcement and also Jayne Boldy, Mendip Conservation Officer about this and also the state of Barclays Bank frontage. I set out be...
The appeal against refusal (3184981) was dismissed, mainly on the ground that the applicants had failed to carry out an adequate search for a suitable site. Since then an application (2018/2647) has been submitted with a site in the south east corner of the petrol stat...
