Land to the North of Ham Lane, and West of, The Causeway, Woolavington, Bridgwater, Somerset, TA7 Data via plota.co.uk

54/25/00029 - Full Planning Permission Approved

Proposal

Construction and operation of a Synchronous Condenser (Grid Stability) Facilities, with associated ancillary infrastructure, buildings, access, landscaping land reprofiling, drainage and associated works. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 19 Sept 2026, 23:12

Application progress

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Received

27 Jan 2026

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Approved

10 Jun 2026

Approved on 10 Jun 2026 · Last checked 19 Sept 2026

Planning committee

Decided by Sedgemoor North on 9 Jun 2026.

Approved by 9 votes to 0

No officer report was published for this decision; this summary is from the committee minutes.

For9

Against0

Abstained1

The parish council asked for a deferral until a tender outcome was known, warning that an unsuccessful bidder could keep a fallback permission on the site.
Officers said there were no planning grounds to defer, and that the approved use would not automatically allow different future development.
The committee voted 9 to 0, with one abstention, to approve, with added conditions including a highway survey.

Read how the committee decided The parish council's concerns about a competing scheme, the debate on fallback permissions, and the vote to approve.

Source: Plota analysis of Sedgemoor's committee minutes of 9 Jun 2026.

Documents

View the documents on the council's website ↗

Site constraints 7

In flood zones plus climate change

Inside the extent flood zones 2 and 3 could reach with climate change: the Central allowance for the 2080s on rivers, the Upper End allowance for sea level rise to 2125. From the sea. Defences are not counted.

The Environment Agency flood map for planning. Councils use it to decide when a flood risk assessment and the sequential test are needed. It is indicative and does not show whether a particular property will flood.

Flood map ↗

National infrastructure project about 295 m away: Hinkley Point C Connection

The site is about 295 m from the project boundary. Electricity line, decided. The project page says whether consent was granted. Also within 2 km: Hinkley Point C Connection Project Material Change (at pre-application, about 184 m).

Nationally significant infrastructure projects (power stations, electricity lines, pipelines, major roads and railways, harbours, airports and reservoirs) are consented by a Secretary of State under the Planning Act 2008, after an examination by the Planning Inspectorate, rather than by the council. The boundary is the one the Inspectorate consults on and can change as the scheme does. Projects are shown within 2 km of the site.

Planning Inspectorate project page ↗

Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 2

Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.

Radon affected area, class 5

An estimated 10 to 30% of homes reach the radon action level. Indicative for the 1 km square, which takes the highest class found in it; a radon test gives the answer for a building.

From the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency indicative atlas. Under building regulations, as the BRE guide BR 211 (2023) sets out, new buildings and extensions need basic radon protection from class 3 in England and Wales and from class 2 in Scotland, and full protection from class 5. The class at the site itself, from the detailed BGS map, decides which.

UKHSA radon ↗

Also on the record

Inside the Woolavington built-up area; Priority habitat about 16 m away: Coastal and floodplain grazing marsh; Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) had this area as grade 3, but it predates the buildings here and the current map does not class it as farmland.

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 Planning Inspectorate, 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 8DN
Received: 27 Jan 2026
Validated: 27 Jan 2026
Parish: Woolavington
Case officer: Show
Decision: Granted Permission
Decision date: 10 Jun 2026
Applicant: Show
Agent: Savills, 2 Kingsway

How this decision compares

Decided in 134 days from validation, 83 days slower than Sedgemoor's median of 51 for commercial and major works. Approved, as 94% of commercial and major works here are.

This one134d

Council51d

UK57d

55%decided within 8 weeks

94%approved

35decided in the last year

Plota live figures for commercial and major works decided by Sedgemoor in the last twelve months, from validation. Sedgemoor decision record →