Pear Tree Farm, The Causeway, Mark, Highbridge, Somerset, TA9 4QT Data via plota.co.uk

Proposal

Replacement of fire damaged workshop and garage. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
28 May 2026
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Approved
8 Jul 2026

Approved on 8 Jul 2026 · Last checked 10 Sept 2026

Site constraints 7

Flood zone 2, rivers and sea
Medium chance: between a 1 in 100 and 1 in 1,000 annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 to 1 in 1,000 from the sea. Any development here needs a flood risk assessment. Defences are not counted.
The Environment Agency flood map for planning. Homes in zone 3 must also pass the sequential test. Surface water flooding is a separate map.
Flood map ↗
National infrastructure project about 546 m away: Hinkley Point C Connection
The site is about 546 m from the project boundary. Electricity line, decided. The project page says whether consent was granted. Also within 2 km: Hinkley Point C Connection Project Material Change (at pre-application, about 609 m).
Nationally significant infrastructure projects (power stations, electricity lines, pipelines, major roads and railways, harbours, airports and reservoirs) are consented by a Secretary of State under the Planning Act 2008, after an examination by the Planning Inspectorate, rather than by the council. The boundary is the one the Inspectorate consults on and can change as the scheme does. Projects are shown within 2 km of the site.
Planning Inspectorate project page ↗
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
1 listed building within 150 m of the postcode pin; Inside the Mark Causeway built-up area; Priority habitat about 11 m away: No main habitat but additional habitats present; Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) had this area as grade 3, but it predates the buildings here and the current map does not class it as farmland.
Not affected
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 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 1

Last sold for £181,500 in April 1997. Detached house, freehold.

11 April 1997£181,500

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
TA9 4QT
Received
28 May 2026
Validated
28 May 2026
Parish
Mark
Case officer
Show
Decision
Granted Permission
Decision date
8 Jul 2026
Applicant
Show
Agent
Simon Spencer MCIAT, Moor Lane House

How this decision compares

Decided in 41 days from validation, 10 days faster than Sedgemoor's median of 51 for commercial and major works. Approved, as 94% of commercial and major works here are.

55%decided within 8 weeks
94%approved
35decided in the last year

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

Consultation & key dates

Consultation
4 Jun 2026
Comments by
3 Jul 2026

Sale prices: Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.