PUBLIC notices cover a wide variety of applications, ranging from licensing to planning applications, roadworks and other works.

Here are some of the latest applications in the local area:

PLANS to build four houses in an ‘unused’ and ‘overgrown’ garden in Wellington have been revealed.

Mr and Mrs Hawes have applied to Somerset Council to build two detached and two semi detached dwellings on the land associated with 10 Farthings Pitts, Foxdown Hill.

In the application, Mr Bailey of Stags, on behalf of Mr and Mrs Hawes, said that developing the area would ‘improve the appearance of the site’, have a ‘positive contribution to the wider character’ and ‘make an efficient use of land to provide additional housing for the local area’.

The proposed three-bedroom house and three two-bedroom houses would each have its own private amenity space/garden, dedicated space refuse storage and parking.

The layout provides for vehicular access to the houses from Foxdown Hill and allows for cars to turnaround within the site.

The proposed houses are two storey with pitched roofs.

They will be built out of a mix of red brick and white render, with slate roofs.

In the application, Mr Bailey said: “The design approach reflects that of existing housing surrounding the site and further along Farthing Pitts.”

The site was previously granted planning permission in 2004 for the development of two houses, which has since lapsed.

The applicant says in the application, they are now in a position to move forward with the development of the site.

Somerset Council aim to make a decision on this application by April 14.

PLANS to convert an agricultural barn into a house in Wellington have been rejected.

Mr Lamb applied to Somerset Council last year to convert and add a single story extension to an agricultural barn and at Elworthy Farm in Greenham.

The proposed conversion would turn the barn into a two-bedroom house made out of natural stone and timber.

The plans were refused on February 17 due to the proposed design failing to ‘respect the building's agricultural character and appearance’.

The statement said: “The proposal would lead to unjustified harm to the significance of the non designated heritage asset and would neither conserve nor enhance its historic character or setting.”

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It was also refused because the building is so ‘deteriorated’ that the project would require a rebuild rather than a conversion.