A BRIDGWATER food wholesaler has applied for permission to build a new trade counter, office and workshop in the town.

Penny Lane Foods Ltd, which supplies the hospitality industry as well as members of the public, wants to build a 207sqm building on a derelict part of the Colley lane Industrial Estate, off Tone Drive.

A redundant water tank, previously used to fuel a sprinkler system at the former Herb Royal/Borden UK site, now Sharpak Ltd, has been removed from the site.

The water tank has been removed from the site off Tone Drive. Picture: LBP/Somerset Council

As well as the building, the plans include details of parking spaces – including a disabled space – and an electric vehicle charging point.

The application said the scheme would bring “an improved street scene to Tone Drive to that which currently exists”.

No new access points off Tone Drive would be created, it went on, with access shared between the Penny Lane Foods Ltd lorry park and Jasun Filtration.

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“The subject site is brownfield land underused for linked commercial purposes, with the now-redundant water tank set back from the frontage element, of which the tank and chain link fencing, which has been removed,” it said.

“There are no significant trees that will be affected as part of this development and the site does not incorporate any significant and/or mature shrubs, hedgerow, and plantings.”

The scheme will now be considered by Somerset Council planners. For more details and to comment on the plans, log on to somerset.gov.uk and search application reference 08/24/00139.

How the new Penny Lane Foods building could look. Picture: LBP/Somerset Council