Mill Farm Weston Bampfylde Road Weston Bampfylde Yeovil Somerset BA22 7HY Data via plota.co.uk

26/01100/FUL - Full Application Awaiting decision

Proposal

Siting of 2 No. safari tents with timber platforms and WC facilities Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 9 Oct 2026, 11:04

Application progress

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Received

14 May 2026

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Validated

26 May 2026

Decision

Expected by 9 Oct 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicted a decision around 11 Oct 2026; it is now day 138.

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.

Agricultural land, grade 3b

Not 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) agrees.

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.

Also on the record

National infrastructure project about 1110 m away: A303 Sparkford to Ilchester Dualling; Radon affected area, class 3.

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: South Somerset
Application type: Full Application
Postcode: BA22 7HY
Received: 14 May 2026
Validated: 26 May 2026
Ward: CASTLE CARY
Parish: Sparkford
Target decision: 9 Oct 2026
Applicant: Show
Agent: Assetsphere Ltd

Decision outlook

Day 138, past the statutory target. 79% of changes of use in South Somerset are decided within thirteen weeks; extensions of time are common, and the council need not decide on the day. Last seen undecided on 9 Oct 2026.

target

predicted

Day 13882 days past the 56-day target

62%decided within 8 weeks

93%approved

99decided in the last year

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