A planning application to build a house on the edge of Holcombe has been turned down by Mendip District Council.

The application for the proposed building of a single-storey two-bedroom dwellinghouse and associated works on land south of Budds Croft, Brewery Lane, Holcombe, has been submitted by Mr A Durici.

Plans to build a house on the site have been refused twice before, in 2015 and 2002, and this time the house was going to be single instead of two-storey.

However, Mendip still turned down the plan, saying that the application had failed to overcome the reasons for refusal the previous times.

The council said the site lies outside of the development limits of Holcombe and the proposal would result in an undesirable intensification of development on the edge of the village, and the proposed development would result in an increase in vehicular traffic along a designated public footpath which is restricted in width, resulting in the potential hazard, inconvenience and loss of amenity to all users of the right of way.

Planning applications in the Shepton Mallet area that have been submitted this week to Mendip District Council include:

Application for approval of details reserved by condition 2 (materials) on planning consent 2019/0435/PAA (appeal decision) at Little Acorns, Old Wells Road, Leigh-on-Mendip, has been made by J Barton.

Erection of single storey rear extension and first floor rear extension over flat roof area at 45 Compton Road, Shepton Mallet, has been applied for by Mr and Mrs Paull.

Works and felling of trees in a Conservation Area T1 - Common Ash - Fell, T2 - Turkey Oak - Prune back one low lateral over road to primary branch to effect 5m clearance, T3 - Yew - Remove one low limb over road and trim back soft growth to effect 5m clearance over road, T4 -Western red cedar - Reduce height by 3m to provide clearance from canopy of adjacent Turkey oak (T2), T5-T7 - three Ash - Fell due to ash dieback disease, T8 - Copper beech - Remove major dead wood and upper crown dieback to suitable live growth at Pilton House, Lower Street, Pilton, are wanted by Gary Wilson.

Change of use and conversion of existing barn/outbuilding to dwellinghouse has been applied for at Race Horse Barn, Redlands Farm Lane to Prestleigh Road, Evercreech.

Application for a non-material amendment to permission 2019/2494/HSE for the alterations to fenestration and marginal increase in floor area at Weir Cottage, Weir Lane, Pilton, has been made by Mr and Mrs Simon Coombes.

Works to trees in a Conservation Area are wanted at The Parsonage, Gold Hill, Batcombe.

Planning applications in the Shepton Mallet area that have been decided this week by Mendip District Council include:

Application for approval of details reserved by conditions 3 (schedule of materials), 4 (hard and soft landscaping), 10 (surface water drainage), 13 (construction management plan) on planning consent 2018/3008/FUL at Sestri, Broadway, Chilcompton, by Mr Thorner has been approved.

Single storey extension to existing pool building and change of use of 590sqm of land from agricultural to within domestic curtilage at Hunters Lodge Farm, Hunters Lodge Farm Lane, Wanstrow, by Mr and Mrs Hughes-Hallett have been approved.

Installation of hard standing and dropped kerb at 4 Middlemead, Stratton-on-the-Fosse, by Mr David White has been approved.

Erection of single storey rear extension following demolition of existing conservatory at 59 Beech Avenue, Shepton Mallet, by Sarah Neale has been approved.

Application for approval of details reserved by conditions 3 (external walling materials), 4 (joinery details), 5 (external roofing materials), 6 (ducts, pipes and rainwater goods), 7 (internal works on floor construction and treatment of roof structure) on listed building consent 2018/1754/LBC at Gemini House, Long Street, Croscombe, by Candy Stanley has been approved.

Application for approval of details reserved by condition 3 (structural ties - submission of schedule and method statement) on listed building consent 2020/1160/LBC at Chapel Farm House, Stocks Lane, North Wootton, by Mr Simon and Mrs Felicity Shimmin has been approved.