The Dower House Mill Lane Dowlish Wake Ilminster Somerset TA19 0NY Data via plota.co.uk

26/00913/TCA - Work to Trees Approved
Trees & landscaping

Proposal

Notification of intent to Fell No. 1 Tree and carry out Tree Surgery Works to No. 4 Trees within a Conservation Area. No 5 silver birch (Betula pendula) trees identified - four for trimming and one for felling. AMENDED SPECIFICATION 19.05.26: No. 1 Birch removal, indicated as tree No. 1 in accompanying documents. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
22 Apr 2026
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Approved
1 Jun 2026

Approved on 1 Jun 2026 · Delegated (Use on Recommendations) · Last checked 6 Jul 2026

Documents

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Site constraints 5

Flood zone 3, rivers and sea
High chance: a 1 in 100 or greater annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 from the sea. Any development here needs a flood risk assessment. Defences are not counted.
The Environment Agency flood map for planning. Homes in zone 3 must also pass the sequential test. Surface water flooding is a separate map.
Flood map ↗
Nutrient neutrality catchment: Parrett Catchment
New homes and overnight accommodation must show nutrient neutrality before approval.
Natural England advice: extra wastewater in these catchments harms protected habitats, so schemes must offset their nutrient load, usually through credits.
Dowlish Wake conservation area
Demolition needs planning permission and permitted development is restricted.
The council must give weight to preserving or enhancing the area's character and appearance. Not every council has published its boundaries as open data.
Council document ↗
Agricultural land, grade 4
Poor quality farmland, not best and most versatile. Predicted from the national soil map. The older provisional map, which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 3. The predicted grade is Defra's current estimate; only a site survey settles it.
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: Network Enhancement Zone 1
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Not affected
Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 11 September 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England 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
South Somerset
Application type
Work to Trees
Postcode
TA19 0NY
Received
22 Apr 2026
Validated
22 Apr 2026
Ward
ILMINSTER
Parish
Dowlish Wake
Target decision
3 Jun 2026
Decision
Application Permitted
Decision date
1 Jun 2026
Decision level
Delegated (Use on Recommendations)
Applicant
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How this decision compares

Decided in 40 days from validation, about the council's usual 38 days. Approved, as 97% of tree and landscaping works here are.

92%decided within 8 weeks
97%approved
193decided in the last year

Plota live figures for tree and landscaping works decided by South Somerset in the last twelve months, from validation. South Somerset decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-14878163
Env. assessment
No

Historical activity at this location

29 previous applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

This property

Previous applications at this address

2023 Approved
Notification of intent to carry out tree surgery works to No.02 trees included within Con…
23/02850/TCA
2023 Approved
Notification of intent to carry out tree surgery works to No.02 trees included within Con…
23/02850/TCA
2021 Approved
Notification of intent to fell No 1 Tree within a Conservation Area.
21/00805/TCA
2021 Approved
Notification of intent to fell No 1 Tree within a Conservation Area.
21/00805/TCA
Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2025 Approved
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2025 Approved
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Erection of a garden room extension to rear of property
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2025 Withdrawn
Bridge Cottage Main Street Dowlish Wake Ilminster Somerset TA19 0NY
Notification of intent to Fell No. 1 Tree within a Conservation Area. T1 - Elder Sapling
25/01784/TCA
2025 Withdrawn
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Notification of intent to Fell No. 1 Tree within a Conservation Area. T1 - Elder Sapling
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2024 Approved
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Notification of intent to Fell various trees within a Conservation Area.
24/02834/TCA
2024 Approved
Bridge Cottage Main Street Dowlish Wake Ilminster Somerset TA19 0NY
Notification of intent to Fell various trees within a Conservation Area.
24/02834/TCA
2023 Approved
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Notification of intent to Fell No. 1 Tree and carry out Tree Surgery Works to No. 6 Trees…
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2023 Approved
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2021 Approved
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2020 Approved
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2019 Approved
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2016 Approved
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2016 Approved
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2021 Approved
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