Planning news in and around Radstock this week.

And there is an update on when the former Radco building is likely to be demolished in the centre of town.

The external structures, such as this trolley park at the entrance of the former supermarket, are looking very unloved. Demolition work was delayed while the former Maisie's Bakery continued to work from the building, which is still being used as a storage and distribution area for the Co-op, but they left at the beginning of 2021.

Now in a notice to councillors, the company behind the work has issued a notice, saying that the demolition is "anticipated" as starting in Autumn 2021. The Hybrid planning permission was awarded on March 11, 2021, now 51 conditions need to be met before that can become active. Those pre-commencement conditions will be submitted in the summer and then B&NES will have a further 12 weeks to respond.

Cllr Eleanor Jackson told Nub News: "The progress on the re-development of the RADCO site seems glacial.

"The process has not taken quite as long as with the adjacent site, the Shambles, to which I have devoted quite a lot of time and energy, but it is now going ahead at a great pace, and I am sure the same result can be achieved for RADCO. I know how much community support there is for the redevelopment, and of course it represents local jobs, our greatest need in Westfield at present, as well as nationwide. "

In other planning news:

Planners in Mendip are considering a five day notice to fell an Ash tree at

Manor Cottage Brewery Lane in Holcombe. Reference there is 2021/1394/FDN

Planners are being asked to discharge one of the conditions on the application for 81 homes on land at Cobblers Way, in Westfield. They are considering condition 13 of application 14/04003/OUT (Outline planning application (all matters reserved aside from access) for the residential dwellings and associated works on land at the former St Peter's Factory.

In Paulton homeowners of 22 Woodview, under application 21/02696/FUL have applied to build a two storey side extension.

B&NES planning department decisions made this week include:

They have discharged one of the conditions of the planning application to build 15 homes on land along the Wells Road, in Hallatrow. That is condition five of the application of 15/01335/OUT allowed on appeal in August 2016. The homes will be built on a land of Parcel 3615.

An application at 7 Hillside View, in Welton for a single storey rear extension has been approved.

The planning application for a single storey rear extension at 45 Wells Road, in Westfield, has been approved.

An application for a garage at 9 Plumptree Road, in Paulton has also been approved.

An application for a single storey flat roof extension at Brockvale, in High Park, in Paulton.

And planners have no objection to tree works at The Magpies, on Mill Road, in Radstock, which will mean the felling of ten trees and a row of conifers.