If you were not at the public meeting of the Parish Council last week, you will have a completely false impression, thanks to the front page headline in the Mid Somerset Gazette: Police voice ghetto fear.   more »

There's a full planning application to build six houses in a garden on Portway near Petvin Close.   more »

Sue Monaghan, who has been active in consultations about the large housing development on the site of former Clarks buildings called the Houndwood Development, has just been round with a CD rom which I uploaded to my laptop.   more »

The planning committee of Street Parish Council recently turned down an application to demolish Holmcroft; the problem is that lanning permission has already been given for the building of more than 40 retirement homes on the site.   more »

Councillor David Pipes has told me about a very recent application to demolish this handsome 19th century house near Street Cross.   more »

This seems such a major development that it needs everyone to study the plans and make their views known.   more »

McCarthy and Stone's latest application for the development of Holmcroft is on the Mendip site. You can see the general views of the proposed building here.   more »

This planning application got beneath my radar, until I read about it in the Central Somerset Gazette:   more »

There was a meeting of what are called 'stakeholders', people who have a stake in what the new Houndwood housing development will be like, on Monday.   more »

I have just been told that you can visit this website to see the drawings that accompany planning applications.   more »

Among the planning applications that came through to me this week is this:   more »

Two bits of paper remind me of the march of retirement-flat building in Street. The first is the report of the inspector on Holmcroft, the handsome 19th century house in Somerton Road.   more »

David Price of Cosy Feet. His opinion of the Regional Development Agency is not high:   more »

I think I mentioned a while ago that the Baptists applied to knock down their church and build a modern one, along with some houses. In the most recent Central Somerset Gazette I read this:   more »

I've been watching the building works in Somerton Road for the past weeks. On the Glastonbury side one house is ...   more »

I posted a photo of the Pound Shop's kerbside display of goods and asked why they were there. Now the Gazette has the news that I wasn't the only one to object:   more »

I see in the Central Somerset Gazette that our Parish Council is leasing space in Crispin Hall, room 20 in the Self-Help Centre, as an office and meeting room.   more »

The Gazette reported yesterday on the latest plans for the big housing development on the Houndwood site.   more »

Seventyfive Street residents packed the Methodist church hall last night to support the Parish Council as it rejected a planning request from a property developer, called, I think, Midshires Estates Ltd, to build 50 houses off Brookside.   more »

There is an extra council meeting on Thursday night to discuss this planning application - it is not just being ...   more »

I have just had passed on to me the report by the University of the West of England on the consultation earlier this year. There is a detailed account of the findings of the two groups of people at the consultation, about many different aspects of the planning brief.   more »

Mr Clothier has kindly invited the Street Society to the grounds of his home, Leigh Holt, this evening, and I ...   more »