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2026/0805/HSE - Householder Application Approved

Proposal

Retrospective application for roof conversion, installation of skylights, two dormer windows to rear elevation, erection of single-storey side extension with balcony over, erection of porch extension and fenestration alterations to ground floor windows. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 8 Sept 2026, 07:20

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Application progress

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Received

28 Apr 2026

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Committee

1 Sept 2026

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Approved

7 Sept 2026

Approved on 7 Sept 2026 · Planning Board · Last checked 8 Sept 2026

Planning committee

Decided by Mendip East on 1 Sept 2026.

Approved by 10 votes to 1

As officers recommended.

For10

Against1

Officers advised approval because the works were appropriately designed, caused minimal residential amenity impact and would not harm the heritage setting, subject to landscaping.
The parish council, Conservation Officer and Gardens Trust objected, while the agent supported the application and accepted the landscaping condition.
The committee approved the application by 10 votes to 1, with landscaping mitigation to be maintained in perpetuity.

Read how the committee decided The proposed works, site history, officers’ assessment, objections, committee debate, vote and decision.

Source: Plota analysis of Mendip's committee minutes of 1 Sept 2026.

Documents 13

Consultation & comments 3

PDF Commenter’s name hidden Show Consultee Comment · 10 Aug 2026 View ↗

PDF CONSERVATION OFFICER Consultee Comment · 5 Aug 2026 View ↗ PDF CLERK - TRUDOXHILL PARISH COUNCIL Consultee Comment · 10 May 2026 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 4

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.

Registered park or garden 28 m away: Marston House

Its setting is a consideration for work nearby.

Registered parks and gardens, battlefields, world heritage sites and protected wrecks are designated heritage assets: harm needs clear and convincing justification.

Historic England ↗

Also on the record

1 listed building within 150 m; Priority habitat 9 m away: Deciduous woodland.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · 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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