Lacock Abbey, High Street, Lacock, Chippenham, SN15 2LG Data via plota.co.uk

PL/2025/09735 - Approval of details reserved by a condition Submitted
Admin / procedural

Proposal

Discharge of conditions 1 (work commencement deadline) and 3b (Archaeological works) of - Installation of conventional lightning protection system employing a Faraday Cage involving network of air terminations and down conductors over roofs and elevations Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
around 12 Dec 2025
Decision
Target date was 6 Feb 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. A decision is expected by 6 Feb 2026.

The consultation period closed on 7 Jan 2026.

Documents 3

Application forms 1

PDF Application Form Application Form · 12 Dec 2025 View ↗

Other documents 2

PDF Archaeological Interim Report Report · 17 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF Covering Letter PDF · 17 Dec 2025 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Associated applications 2

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    Conditions 1, 3b awaiting decision

    • ConditionsDischarge of conditions 1 (work commencement deadline) and 3b (Archaeological works)This applicationPL/2025/09735

Site constraints 8

22 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin
Nearest: The Fox Talbot Museum and Abbey Lodge and Entrance Gates, Grade II, about 13 m from the postcode pin · 1 Grade I, 1 Grade II*, 19 Grade II
The site itself is not listed. Listed building consent is needed for work that affects the special interest of a listed building, inside or out, on top of planning permission. Setting can be a consideration for buildings nearby; there is no fixed radius.
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Historic England ↗
Registered park or garden: Lacock Abbey
Nationally designated heritage. Its significance and setting carry great weight.
Registered parks and gardens, battlefields, world heritage sites and protected wrecks are designated heritage assets: harm needs clear and convincing justification.
Historic England ↗
Lacock conservation area
Demolition needs planning permission and permitted development is restricted.
The council must give weight to preserving or enhancing the area's character and appearance. Not every council has published its boundaries as open data.
Council document ↗
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) 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.
Scheduled monument about 106 m away: Tithe barn and lock up in East Street
Its setting is a consideration for work nearby.
Nationally important archaeology protected by the Secretary of State. Work that affects the monument or its setting is rarely permitted.
Habitat network: Wood pasture and parkland
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
National infrastructure project about 813 m away: Lime Down Solar Project
The site is about 813 m from the project boundary. Generating station, under examination.
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 ↗
Also on the record
Radon affected area, class 2.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt

Checked on 2 November 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
Wiltshire
Application type
Approval of details reserved by a condition
Postcode
SN15 2LG
Received
around 12 Dec 2025
Validated
12 Dec 2025
Ward
Corsham Without ED
Parish
Lacock CP
Case officer
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Last counted 8 Nov 2026

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Consultation & key dates

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7 Jan 2026

Historical activity at this location

38 previous applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

This property

Previous applications at this address

2025 Approved
Removal of masonry chimney capping and replacement with stainless steel flue liner and te…
PL/2025/09087
2025 Approved
Works to carefully dismantle and re-build defective chimney
PL/2025/09068
2025 Approved
Temporary planning permission to use the area as a summer of play hub during July and Aug…
PL/2025/05070
2025 Approved
Scots Pine - Fell.
PL/2025/04417
2025 Approved
Apple (T1a), Hawthorn T1b, T1c, Malus T1d, London Plane T8, Laburnum T6, Magnolia T7 - Re…
PL/2025/00860
2024 Approved
Juglans Nigra (T1) - Sensitively reduce limbs with historic wounds on up to 2 meters. Red…
PL/2024/11549
2023 Approved
Discharge of Condition No 3 on PL/2023/05998 - Installation of conventional lightning pro…
PL/2023/09842
2023 Approved
Work to the Taxodium (Photo Taxodium 1), Beech (Photo Beech 1), Horse Chestnut (Photo Hor…
PL/2023/07181
2023 Approved
Box tree - fell
PL/2023/04415
2023 Approved
Cherry tree - Fell.
PL/2023/04381
2022 Approved
Tall Ash tree with a significant lean, root plate has lifted gradually over the past year…
PL/2022/08101
2022 Approved
Judas tree on South Front of Lacock Abbey. Multiple branches over hanging border and lawn…
PL/2022/07907
2022 Approved
We have an overgrown and unsightly group of 12 x young Thuja Conifers forming an unattrac…
PL/2022/08079
Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2025 Approved
FOX TALBOT MUSEUM, HIGH STREET, LACOCK, CHIPPENHAM, SN15 2LG
Fit new gutters and downpipes to rear elevation
PL/2025/05930
2024 Approved
FOX TALBOT MUSEUM, HIGH STREET, LACOCK, CHIPPENHAM, SN15 2LG
Re-hang timber doors to open outwards and add inner sliding glazed doors for additional a…
PL/2024/09463
2024 Approved
Lacock Hitherway Car Park, Hitherway Corpse & area outside Stables Cafe, Lacock, Wiltshire, SN15 2LG
This application is for advertisement consent for 3 boards. Sign 1: A new Welcome & Orien…
PL/2024/03201
2024 Approved
LAND ADJACENT TO PLAYING FIELD, HITHER WAY, LACOCK, SN15 2LG
Beech tree - Remove the lowest five branches back to the trunk
PL/2024/01274
2023 Approved
Lacock Abbey, High Street, Lacock, Chippenham, Wilts, SN15 2LG
Installation of conventional lightning protection system employing a Faraday Cage involvi…
PL/2023/05998
2023 Approved
LACOCK ABBEY ORCHARD, HIGH STREET, LACOCK, CHIPPENHAM, SN15 2LG
The tree is a relatively young walnut tree planted in the Orchard at Lacock Abbey and is…
PL/2023/02254
2023 Approved
FOX TALBOT MUSEUM & BOTANIC GARDEN, LACOCK ABBEY, HIGH STREET, LACOCK, CHIPPENHAM, WILTSHIRE, SN15 2LG.
Walnut, Holme Oak and a small group of over mature Portuguese laurel shrubs all about 20…
PL/2023/02765
2022 Approved
Estate Yard, Manor Farm, High Street, Lacock, SN15 2LG
Installation of 2 temporary Portakabin buildings to be used as decant office/ canteen spa…
PL/2022/09144
2022 Approved
BEWLEY COMMON, LACOCK, CHIPPENHAM, SN15 2LG
The Chestnut lost major limb in the early part of the summer this has left the tree unbal…
PL/2022/07408
2021 Approved
Lacock Abbey High Street Lacock Chippenham Wiltshire SN15 2LG
Taking down and rebuilding the bottom masonry section of the dormer window. Replacing sec…
21/01057/LBC
2019 Withdrawn
Abbey Field Lacock Abbey Lacock Chippenham SN15 2LG
Fell 1 Dead Poplar Tree - leaning heavily, fell due to high risk of failure - could poten…
19/09665/DDD
2020 Withdrawn
Lacock Abbey High Street Lacock Chippenham Wiltshire SN15 2LG
Fell 1 Willow (T1), Fell 1 Elder (T12), Reduce Height of North Stem of Maple by 4 Metres…
20/09157/TCA
2020 Approved
Lacock Abbey, West Wing Flat High Street Lacock Chippenham Wiltshire SN15 2LG
Retention of works to replace most of the 20th century floor joists and sole plates withi…
20/09716/LBC
2019 Approved
Lacock Abbey High Street Lacock Chippenham Wiltshire SN15 2LG
Structural Works to Turret, Including Replacement of Historic Timber Beams with new oak B…
19/10437/LBC
2020 Withdrawn
Lacock Abbey High Street Lacock Chippenham Wiltshire SN15 2LG
Fell 1 Chestnut tree (T1)
20/00803/TCA
2020 Withdrawn
Lacock Abbey High Street Lacock Chippenham Wiltshire SN15 2LG
1 Metre Crown Reduction to 3 Apple Trees (T1, T4 and T8) and 1 Cherry Tree (T2) Fell 3 Da…
20/00809/TCA
2019 Refused
Sundawn Chapel Hill Lacock Chippenham Wiltshire SN15 2LG
Proposed Ground Floor and Upper Ground Floor Extension.
19/08758/LBC
2019 Refused
Sundawn Chapel Hill Lacock Chippenham Wiltshire SN15 2LG
Proposed Ground Floor and Upper Ground Floor Extension.
19/08542/FUL
2020 Withdrawn
Lacock Abbey High Street Lacock Chippenham Wiltshire SN15 2LG
Apply Stabilising Coat to Earthen Floors to Cloisters.
20/01342/LBC
2019 Withdrawn
Lacock Abbey High Street Lacock Chippenham Wiltshire SN15 2LG
Fell 4 Apple Trees
19/11972/TCA
2016 Approved
Lacock Abbey High Street Lacock Chippenham Wiltshire SN15 2LG
Alterations to the stables in the ground floor of the Stables Courtyard at Lacock Abbey t…
16/11558/FUL
2016 Approved
Lacock Abbey High Street Lacock SN15 2LG
Alteration of existing toilets on western side of the Abbey Courtyard and conversion of c…
16/10317/LBC
2016 Approved
Lacock Abbey High Street Lacock SN15 2LG
Alteration of existing toilets on western side of the Abbey Courtyard and conversion of c…
16/10014/FUL
2016 Withdrawn
Lacock Abbey High Street Lacock Chippenham Wiltshire SN15 2LG
See Work Schedule
16/10186/TCA
2016 Withdrawn
Lacock Abbey High Street Lacock Chippenham Wiltshire SN15 2LG
Fell 3 Horse Chestnut Trees, 1 Ash Tree, 1 Sycamore Tree, 4 Hawthorn Trees, 1 Yew Tree an…
16/00579/TCA
Wiltshire
Planning Authority Score
3.9/10
Below average
#203 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Major dwellings

Wiltshire is slower than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #225 out of 296. The council extends the time limit on 55% of applications - one of the highest rates in England. Expect your application to take longer than the standard deadline. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (96%) than the national average (90%).

Frequently extends decision deadlines
expect longer than the statutory limit
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Wiltshire decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
93%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #71 of 296
96%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #65 of 296
53%
Decided in 8 weeks
Below avg (63%) #225 of 296
55%
Extended time limit
Above avg (41%) #252 of 296
78%
Minor dwellings approved
339 decided (1-9 homes)
90%
Major dwellings approved
48 decided (10+ homes)
92%
Change of use approved
160 decided
3,659
Total decisions
256 refused in the year to March 2026
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings