A planning application has been submitted to officially allow a caravan on the edge of Glastonbury to be permanently used as a residential home.

The application for a certificate of lawful existing use of the caravan for residential purposes on land at Cooks Corner, Green's Drove, Glastonbury, has been submitted to Mendip District Council by Mr C White.

The land was bought in October 2010 and in that month a static caravan was purchased, put on the site and connected to the existing water and electricity supply as a new member of staff for the applicant's engineering company needed somewhere to live.

The member of staff remained in occupation at the caravan until April this year, when the current resident of the caravan moved in.

The site of the caravan and surrounding farm buildings amounts to 0.27 acres and the remaining land amounts to a further 1.38 acres.

The applicant wants to officially class the caravan as being residential as it has been continuously occupied for nearly 11 years.

Planning applications in the Glastonbury area that have been decided this week by Mendip District Council include:

Application for approval of details reserved by conditions 4 (Materials), 5 (Drainage - Infiltration Testing) and 6 (External Lighting) on planning consent 2019/0696/FUL (erection of a new eight-bed holiday let) at Cider House, Middle Wick Farm, Wick Lane, Wick, by Mr and Mrs Barker has been approved.

Erection of traditionally styled carport (retrospective) on land at Stockbridge Lane to Steanbow, West Pennard, by Mr P Moseley has been approved.

Works to trees in a Conservation Area: Conifer hedge (left hand side of property along footpath) - reduce in height by 4ft, trim all sides; bay at front gates (right hand side), reduce in height by 3ft; Macrocarpa hedge to rear of property, reduce in height up to 8ft and cut back inside face by approximately/maximum 2ft; reduce single conifer at end of garden to same level as Macrocarpa hedge at Old Glade Cottage, Water Lane, Butleigh, by Andrew Morland have been approved.