Three new homes are planned in Martin Street, Baltonsborough. Picture: Orme/Somerset Council

Plans for three “high-quality” homes in Somerset village

Paul JonesOctober 15, 20241 Comment0

THREE new homes could be built in the village of Baltonsborough.

Plans have been submitted by Orme, on behalf of Bettridge, to build two four-bed houses and one five-bed house on a plot in Martin Street.

The proposed family homes are “consistent with the two-storey dwellings surrounding the site”, the application said.

Each would benefit from a front garden, the plans said, with the homes pushed back from the road edge.

“The existing tall hedgerow lining Martin Street will be retained, modified and reinstated as necessary to ensure the required visibility splays and provide a vegetated barrier between the dwellings and the road, maintaining privacy,” they added.

The homes had been designed to “maintain the high-quality village aesthetic”, the application said, with tiled roofs, natural stone walls and painted timber windows.

“The size and arrangement of windows has been considered to create more traditional street frontages and more contemporary, glazed rear elevations that open out onto the private gardens,” it said.

Development of the site was “on the border of development limits”, the plan added, but would be “in-keeping with the neighbouring dwellings”.

“We are confident that the proposals are suitable for the site, providing the village with high-quality dwellings that are desirable for modern families,” it concluded.

For more details on the plans, and to comment on them, log on to somerset.gov.uk and search for application reference 2024/1810/FUL.