Barwind Farm Windmill Hill Ashill Ilminster Somerset TA19 9NU Data via plota.co.uk

26/00625/FUL - Full Application Approved

Proposal

The erection of a new Steel Portal Framed Store for storage and maintenance of Carnival floats and formation of a short access track Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received

16 Mar 2026

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Validated

24 Apr 2026

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Approved

31 Jul 2026

Approved on 31 Jul 2026 · Delegated (Use on Recommendations) · Last checked 1 Aug 2026

Documents

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Site constraints 5

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.

Public footpath 13 m away

Matters where it crosses or adjoins the site: obstructing a path without a diversion order is an offence, and work cannot start until the order is confirmed.

Compiled from highway authority data, not the legal definitive map. A few authorities have not published, so no path shown is not proof there is none.

Agricultural land, grade 4

Poor quality farmland, not best and most versatile. 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), 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 Expansion Zone

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 2.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No listed building at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. 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: South Somerset
Application type: Full Application
Postcode: TA19 9NU
Received: 16 Mar 2026
Validated: 24 Apr 2026
Ward: ILMINSTER
Parish: Ashill
Target decision: 19 Jun 2026
Decision: Application Permitted with Conditions
Decision date: 31 Jul 2026
Decision level: Delegated (Use on Recommendations)
Applicant: Show
Agent: Minster Architecture

How this decision compares

Decided in 98 days from validation, 72 days slower than South Somerset's median of 26 for agricultural works. Approved, as 99% of agricultural works here are.

This one98d

Council26d

UK44d

83%decided within 8 weeks

99%approved

110decided in the last year

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