A POPULAR dental practice in Bishop’s Lydeard will be able to treat more patients soon after plans to expand its physical base were approved.

The Church House Dental Clinic has been providing dental treatment for local patients since it was established back in 2017.

Dental practitioner Ulrich Nieuwenhuis applied in December 2023 to expand the business by converting a flat on the first floor into a dental surgery and laboratory.

Somerset Council has now approved the plans, which will allow the business to take on take on two more dentists, two hygienists and two dental nurses.

In a statement released in December 2023, Mr Nieuwenhuis said the clinic currently had around 300 people on its waiting list and that this expansion would enable more patients to be treated locally.The new sections of the clinic are expected to be completed and open to patients before the end of the year.