Huckham Farm, 16 Berhill, Ashcott, Bridgwater, Somerset, TA7 9QN Data via plota.co.uk

01/26/00006 - Full Planning Permission Pending

Proposal

Erection of livestock buildings and covered cattle race. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 23 Oct 2026, 04:25

Application progress

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Received

27 May 2026

Decision

Target date was 22 Jul 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicted a decision around 29 Oct 2026; it is now day 155.

The consultation period closed on 26 Jun 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.

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 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 3; Priority habitat about 26 m away: Traditional orchard.

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 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.

Sales history 2

Last sold for £605,000 in March 2025. Detached house, freehold.

26 March 2025£605,000

11 December 1996£90,000

Sale prices from HM Land Registry's price paid record, matched to this application by its address.

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Important details

Council: Sedgemoor
Application type: Full Planning Permission
Postcode: TA7 9QN
Received: 27 May 2026
Validated: 27 May 2026
Parish: Ashcott
Case officer: Show
Applicant: Show
Agent: Lyndon Brett Partnership, County Court Chambers

Decision outlook

Day 155, past the statutory target. 91% of agricultural works in Sedgemoor are decided within thirteen weeks; extensions of time are common, and the council need not decide on the day. Last seen undecided on 23 Oct 2026.

target

predicted

Day 15599 days past the 56-day target

80%decided within 8 weeks

87%approved

85decided in the last year

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