Land, Stocklands Farm, Bath Road, Bawdrip, Bridgwater, Somerset Data via plota.co.uk

Proposal

Change of use of winery and bonded wine store to Class E use with installation of roller shutter door to the West elevation, creation of 3No. parking spaces, installation of 1No. electric vehicle charging point (EVPC), and erection of bin and bicycle stores. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
3 Mar 2026
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Approved
23 Apr 2026

Approved on 23 Apr 2026 · Last checked 19 Sept 2026

Site constraints 5

Agricultural land, grade 3b
Not best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) agrees.
Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.
Habitat network: Lowland calcareous grassland
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
Radon affected area, class 4; Priority habitat about 7 m away: Lowland calcareous grassland; Open access land about 8 m away: Access Land - Combined Open Country, Registered Common Land and Section 16 Dedicated Land. MoD Byelaw, Section 28 Exclusions, Racecourses and Aerodromes and ECP Margin have been removed..
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency (radon, contains BGS materials © UKRI) and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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Important details

Council
Sedgemoor
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Postcode
TA7 9AJ
Received
3 Mar 2026
Validated
3 Mar 2026
Parish
Bawdrip
Case officer
Show
Decision
Granted Permission
Decision date
23 Apr 2026
Applicant
Show
Agent
Lyndon Brett Partnership, County Court Chambers

How this decision compares

Decided in 51 days from validation, about the council's usual 53 days. Approved, as 80% of changes of use here are.

58%decided within 8 weeks
80%approved
92decided in the last year

Plota live figures for changes of use decided by Sedgemoor in the last twelve months, from validation. Sedgemoor decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Consultation
25 Mar 2026
Comments by
23 Apr 2026