Plans submitted for straw and machinery barn to be built in Butleigh Wootton

Plans to build a straw and machinery barn in Butleigh Wootton have been submitted to Mendip District Council.

A planning application to determine if prior approval is required for a proposed agricultural building at Rowley Farm, Sub Road, Butleigh Wootton, has been submitted by Mr R Chaddock.

The proposal is to build a new steel portal frame building for the purposes of storing agricultural machinery and straw.

The proposed siting of the new barn is land in current agricultural use, to the east of Rowley Farm, on the opposite side of Wootton Hill/Sub Road.

The proposed height to the ridge will be 7.81m and height to the eaves will be 4.61m. The building will be clad with profile metal sheet cladding up to 2.8m, with vertical timber cladding, with galvanised ends, above.

The applicant's current farming enterprise, Lower Rocks Farm and Rowley Farm, has a holding extending to 253 hectares of land.

One other planning application in the Street area has been submitted this week:

Works to trees: Crown lift walnut tree to give a maximum of 2m from ground level, remove epicormic growth from main trunk at The Old Vicarage, Mark Road, Burtle, have been applied for by Mr P Heywood.

Planning applications in the Street area that have been decided this week include:

Erection of two-storey extension to rear and single-storey extension to rear and side at 2 Forth Close, Street, by Mr and Mrs Miller has been approved.

Erection of a detached garage at Pynes, Holywell Road, Edington, by Mr and Mrs Kitching has been approved.