A SITE in a Somerset village – with planning permission for nine new homes – has gone up for sale.

The 0.7-acre site, in Stockelm, in Street Road, Compton Dundon, is being marketed by Symonds & Sampson, with a guide price of some £610,000.

It comes with planning permission granted for nine dwellings, with parking, in a former orchard.

“The site has good road frontage and has good access to the town of Street and the excellent road links to the north and west,” the listing said.

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“Compton Dundon has a fine village hall and recreation field, church and public house,” it went on. “The popular market town of Somerton is just three miles away offering excellent facilities including a supermarket, shops, doctor’s surgery, pharmacy, post office, a choice of pubs, bistros and restaurants.

“The larger town of Street is 1.5 miles distant and is home to Clarks Village and Millfield private school.

“The historic towns of Glastonbury, Sherborne, Yeovil and Taunton providing shopping and business facilities.

“Huish Episcopi Academy, rated one of the top 10 schools in Somerset, is within the catchment for state schooling at Langport.”

The site border another recent housing development off the B3151 in Compton Dundon.