Somerset Council has approved plans for two detached homes on back garden land behind properties on Orchard Road in Street.

The scheme, submitted by Della Valle Architects on behalf of Mr N. Baker, covers land to the rear of numbers 14, 16 and 18 Orchard Road. It was resubmitted earlier this year after a previous planning consent expired.

The approved proposal is for two-storey, three-bedroom detached homes. Each new house will have three parking spaces, with an additional two spaces retained for number 14.

Access will be via a private parking area leading to the Clarks Village access road.

The scheme is effectively a revival of a design approved in 2022 but not built out within the required time limit. The resubmitted plans kept the same layout and scale, while adding updated sustainability measures.

Those measures include air source heat pumps, solar panels, water butts and wildlife features such as bat, bird and hedgehog boxes. The landscaping also includes native planting and flowering cherry trees.

Planning papers say the site sits within Street's development boundary and outside the conservation area.

The land has a long planning history. Earlier versions of the proposal dating back to 2010 were withdrawn, refused or dismissed on appeal before later schemes secured permission. In 2022, the council also confirmed that foul drainage works had started before an earlier consent deadline.

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This latest approval means the two-home scheme can now move forward unless any further conditions attached to the permission still need to be discharged.

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