A small Somerset village near the A303 will expand by nearly 15 per cent after housing plans were approved.

The Case family put forward outline plans back in August 2019 to construct 43 homes on West Camel Road in the small village of Queen Camel, between Yeovil and Sparkford.

Somerset Council finally granted outline planning permission for the development in April 2025, nearly six years after the plans were first submitted – with the site subsequently being sold to Ashford Homes (SW) Ltd. and revised plans coming forward two months later.

The developer (which is based on Bradford-on-Avon in Wiltshire) has now secured planning permission from Somerset Council – with the possibility of new homes being on the horizon is the new Somerset Local Plan takes shape.

The site is an L-shaped par

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