The owner of 33 Portway, pictured here, has applied for outline planning permission for a house behind No 33. The difficulty is that there could be no proper access to a house there, without removing the handsome - and protected - tree. A neighbour tells me that No. 33 is not used by the owner, who lets it out to Millfield pupils, and that any new house would therefore not help with housing people in Street.

See the application here: http://www.mendip.gov.uk/pods/AppInfo.asp?AppNo=101254/001