The cellular telephone company Bermuda Digital Communications has applied to the Development Applications Board to build a new tower at Town Hill in Smith's Parish.

The company, which owns CellularOne, already has permission to build two large microwave reflector receivers at the site, but has revised that plan for a less intrusive tower.

The two-foot-diameter, 40-foot-high tower has two 20-foot-whip antennae and an overall height of 60 feet.

A small generator and equipment hut will also be built.

The antenna is identical to towers the company already has at Scott's Hill Road, Sandys, and at Faraway, Warwick, and would give the company better coverage of the eastern parishes.

In other planning news yesterday, the owners of Blucks on Front Street have applied to demolish York House and build a five-floor retail and office building and internally renovate the Blucks building.

The redevelopment of York House, which sits on .174 acres adjacent to the 200-year-old Bluck's building, will add more than 8,000 square feet to its current 21,000 square feet.

A spokesman for the Bluck family said yesterday that the building needed to be upgraded.

The Taste of India Restaurant intending space for its customers -- less than a year after it opened in the Bermudiana Arcade.

An application for a change of use from retail to restaurant and create dining space with 28 seats has been filed by Taste of India owner Sharmila Gonsalves.

Mrs. Gonsalves has obtained permission to move into the 8,500-square-foot space next to her restaurant, which is currently occupied by a ceramic and gift store, and faces the Par-la-Ville parking lot access road.

And the Bahai's of Bermuda have applied to change office space into a nursery and day care centre on the 882-square-foot lower floor of their National Spiritual Assembly at 15 Cedar Avenue.