SIX new homes could replace a former landmark pub in a Somerset village.

A planning application to redevelop the former Pimpernel pub site, in West Huntspill, near Highbridge, has been submitted.

The scheme would see the former pub, in Main Road, redeveloped as a single house, with five others built on the plot.

It is the latest in a series of applications to redevelop the once-popular venue, with previous plans for seven homes, and the demolition of the pub itself, approved.

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"This application comes about as an amended scheme, looking to retain the main sections of the former Public House, change its use to a single dwelling and construct a further five dwellings on the site," the application says.

It adds: "In terms of appearance, the proposed new dwellings will take on the form of two individual banks. The front bank, which will form a road frontage proposal, will see the construction of two, two-bedroom properties, accessed directly off of the footpath, together with the adaptation of the former public house to form one additional dwelling.

"These properties will incorporate small front garden areas, set to grass and larger rear gardens again set to grass.

"The rear bank of properties consists of one, two-bedroom property and two, three-bedroom properties.

"These will take on a slightly different appearance to the properties at the front, incorporating a mix of material finishes.

"All of the properties across the frontage will incorporate a natural stone finish to the front elevations and rendered finishes to the remaining elevations."

An improved access road will be built to the homes, the application says, with work already underway after the previous application's approval.

The Pimpernel, once a landmark popular pub, closed around 2006.

For more details and to comment on the application, log on to www.sedgemoor.gov.uk/planning, application reference 52/21/00011.