Mendip’s Local Plan has been submitted for independent Examination, which will be in April 2014 – see http://www.mendip.gov.uk/article/3290/Mendip-Local-Plan-submitted-for-Independent-Examination Mendip’s website with all the documents is here – http://www.mendip.gov.uk/localplanexamination Under the ‘Examination Hearing Sessions’ title there are two very important documents: 1. the ‘Main Matters’ is a list of what the Inspector wants to examine. These […]

Mendip District Council’s Draft Local Plan (Part 1, formerly known as the ‘Core Strategy’) includes strategic planning objectives for the District and its main settlements, requirements for jobs and homes, the allocation of strategic housing and employment areas, and policies to support sustainable development of land in the District.  The current Draft Local Plan was last […]

Earlier this year Radstock Co-operative Society submitted a planning application to demolish the former Fromefield Surgery, and to build a new convenience supermarket. The planning application is still not yet valid, as more information was requested by Mendip’s planners, and the developer is reviewing the design. I have asked the agent to consult locally on the new […]

Mendip District Council’s new “user friendly planning application facility” is now live! – please see here: After being worked on for three weeks, ‘You can now: Track the progress of a planning application  when you have registered a username and password) Make comments on a planning application (when you have registered a username and password) […]

Reasons to be cheerful… it’s soon #Frome SuperMarket, Artisan, Flea, Farmers & Peoples markets, Sunday 3rd Nov: http://www.fromesupermarket.co.uk/ What do you want to see happen in #Frome? Public consultation begins today on the draft Frome Neighbourhood Plan: http://www.frome-tc.gov.uk/neighbourhood-plan/ ‘Participate #Frome‘ week, to encourage all to have their say and get involved in projects across Frome: http://www.frome-tc.gov.uk/participate-frome/ […]

A new planning application has just been submitted by Latona Leisure for more houses at the former Mendip Lodge Hotel site on Bath Road, now known as ‘Bath Road Heights’. The plans are for 14 detached 3-, 4- and 5-bedroom houses at the remaining part of the former hotel site at the northern edge of Frome. […]

Radstock Co-operative Society has submitted a planning application to demolish the former Fromefield Surgery building, at the junction of Bath Road and Rodden Road, and to build a new convenience supermarket on the site. See the article in the Frome Standard here – http://www.fromestandard.co.uk/operative-store-planned-doctors-surgery-site/story-19593332-detail/story.html As one of the ward councillors for the Fromefield area on Mendip District Council, […]

Last week, Latona Leisure, the owners of the Mendip Lodge Hotel site on Bath Road, northern Frome, started site work on the development of 6 new detached houses on the southern part of the site, next to the three existing dwellings. This is four months after withdrawing plans for further housing development across the majority of […]

The new Frome Health Centre is expected to open in January on the old Showfield.  The developers are contributing £38,000 for improvements and enhancements to the facilities at the Showfield, with nearly £5800 also for public consultation, through a ‘Section 106 agreement’ agreed with Mendip District Council.  Frome Town Council has been given an addition sum […]

I received this news below from Clare Hein on behalf of Vision For Frome today: There is a public meeting on 4th October, and a questionnaire survey to respond to before then. “Hello to you all Frome Town Council and Vision for Frome wish to hear views from Frome people and others on how the Frome Showfield may be […]

If you live near the former Mendip Lodge Hotel site on Bath Road on the northern edge of town, have children at the College opposite, have fond memories of the hotel, or just see the site every day, you might be interested in the future of the site.  The news is that late last month, Latona Leisure withdrew […]

ALDC Briefing:  The National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) has been published [on Tuesday 27 March 2012], with significant amendments negotiated by the Liberal Democrats in Government since the Draft NPPF was released for consultation last July.  Here, we outline some of the major changes made to the NPPF since its controversial Draft version:   The controversial […]