Plans to demolish 23 flats in Midsomer Norton’s sheltered housing scheme, St Chad’s Green, went on show last week at the Town Hall. Curo are proposing to build sixteen new one to four-bed homes in its place, to rent or buy through Shared Ownership.

The exhibition is part of the consultation process for the plans, which Curo intends to submit to B&NES very soon, hoping to commence work in Spring 2018 and be finished the following year, in March 2019.

Curo says the land is needed for family homes and that the flats previously offering sheltered accommodation for the elderly are no longer fit for purpose. The last of the residents moved out in 2016.

The proposed new development will consist of a mix of sixteen new homes – a single one-bed flat, seven two-bed houses, seven three-bed houses and one four-bed house. Artists’ impressions of the designs and photographs of other Curo examples were on show at the exhibition.

A planning application will soon be submitted to B&NES, and residents will then have an opportunity to comment via the local authority’s planning website: www.bathnes.gov.uk/planning