Harborne House, Church Lane, Compton Bishop, Axbridge, Somerset, BS26 2HB Data via plota.co.uk

21/26/00003 - Full Planning Permission Approved

Proposal

Change of Use of existing annexe into holiday let and annexe accommodation ancillary to the main dwelling. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 19 Sept 2026, 22:10

Application progress

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Received

21 Apr 2026

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Committee

14 Jul 2026

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Approved

16 Jul 2026

Approved on 16 Jul 2026 · Last checked 19 Sept 2026

Planning committee

Decided by Sedgemoor North on 14 Jul 2026.

Approved unanimously

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

A neighbour said unresolved sewage problems and the annexe's past restriction to use with the main house meant it should not become a holiday let.
Officers said neither Environmental Health nor the Environment Agency had objected, and the holiday use would not materially increase occupancy beyond the existing annexe use.
The committee voted unanimously to approve, with conditions on a privacy screen and wording confirming the building remains unsuitable as a separate dwelling.

Read how the committee decided The objection over sewage and use, officers' assessment, and the unanimous vote to approve.

Source: Plota analysis of Sedgemoor's committee minutes of 14 Jul 2026.

Documents

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Site constraints 5

Mendip Hills National Landscape

Great weight to conserving the landscape; major development restricted.

Previously an area of outstanding natural beauty, which is still the designation in law. Since 2023 authorities must seek to further its purpose, not merely have regard to it.

Agricultural land, grade 2

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), which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 1. 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.

Special area of conservation about 208 m away: Mendip Limestone Grasslands

Work nearby can need a habitats assessment.

Harm to a protected site is only accepted where there is no alternative and an overriding public interest.

Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 1

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

Also on the record

SSSI about 208 m away: Crook Peak to Shute Shelve Hill SSSI.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 11 September 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 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: BS26 2HB
Received: 21 Apr 2026
Validated: 21 Apr 2026
Parish: Compton Bishop
Case officer: Show
Decision: Granted Permission
Decision date: 16 Jul 2026
Applicant: Show

How this decision compares

Decided in 86 days from validation, 33 days slower than Sedgemoor's median of 53 for changes of use. Approved, as 81% of changes of use here are.

This one86d

Council53d

UK56d

59%decided within 8 weeks

81%approved

91decided in the last year

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