A THEATRE company’s building is set to be demolished if plans for a new access to housing are approved.

A planning application has been submitted to Somerset Council for a new entry point to land at The Nurseries, off the Upper High Street, in Castle Cary.

Plans for 24 new homes on the site have already been approved, with an access from Cumnock Road.

However, Collier Planning has now applied for a variation, allowing for the proposed access from Olympic Drive – includng the demolition of the former CATS (Cary Amateur Theatrical Society) building.

“If it is approved, it is proposed that the conditions on the original planning permission relating to the provision of an access from Cumnock Road are amended to allow for the development to be accessed from the proposed new access into the site from Olympic Drive,” the application said.

The previously approved access would still be allowed, it said, with Olympic Drive also permitted.

How the new access could work, off Olympic Drive. Picture: RGP/Somerset Council

“The … application is still proposing a scheme which includes the approved access from Cumnock Road and still requires it to be constructed prior to the occupation of any of the dwellings, as is currently the case,” it added.

“However, the variations which are being sought … would mean that if an alternative vehicular and pedestrian access into the site has been provided to the satisfaction of the LPA in accordance with an appropriate planning permission for such access, the requirement to construct the Cumnock Road access would fall away.”

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The CATS building would be replaced with a new building on the development, the application said, with details to follow in a later planning application.

For more details, and to comment on the plans, log on to www.somerset.gov.uk and search for application reference 23/03209/FUL.