Steelwork began to rise on June 18 for a 25,000-sq-ft Tesco store on the former location of Avalon Plastics on the town edge of the old tannery site, backing onto B&Q.

  The southwest A39 entrance to Glastonbury will soon be dominated by a £5-million 60-room three-storey Premier Inn and adjoining Brewers Fayre pub­restaurant seating 190. The corporate parent of both is Whitbread—whose ambition is 65,000 bedrooms in Britain by 2016. Site work began this month; opening is expected in spring 2013.

  Cubex Land, the Bristol-based developer that bought most of the Morland site from the Regional Development Agency before it was abolished last year, applied this month for planning permission to build three trade units and an 8,000-sq-ft high-class outlet for Howdens Joinery on land just behind the hotel. Howdens sells only to the building trade and has 500 outlets around Britain.

  “We now have just three acres of serviced land left for development,” said Paul Hobbs, an agent for Cubex. That remaining site is adjacent to the big chimney of the old Baily tannery.