Higher Stockbridge Farm Higher Stockbridge Farm Lillington To Junction Seven Ash Common Road Stockbridge DT9 6EP Data via plota.co.uk

P/NMA/2025/04461 - Non Material Amendment Refused
Admin / procedural

Proposal

Non-material amendment - to remove section of hedge and replace with gates; retain section of hedge and remove alternative section of hedge; install operations & management welfare building; station 4 No. storage containers; construct additional access track and revise layout of internal access track; to Planning Permission No. . (Installation of a renewable energy scheme comprising ground mounted photovoltaic arrays together with substation; transformer stations; access; internal access track; landscaping; biodiversity measures; security fencing; security measures; access gate; access improvement and ancillary infrastructure). Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

✓
Received
29 Jul 2025
✗
Refused
22 Aug 2025
Appeal
Not lodged

Refused on 22 Aug 2025 · Delegated · Last checked 25 Oct 2026

Documents 9

Decision & officer reports 2

PDF Decision Notice 163kb · 22 Aug 2025 View ↗ PDF Officer Report 190kb · 22 Aug 2025 View ↗

Plans & drawings 3

PDF Site Layout 5225kb · 29 Jul 2025 View ↗ PDF Operations & Management Welfare Building Elevations rev. A 813kb · 29 Jul 2025 View ↗ PDF Operations & Management Welfare Building Floor Plan 376kb · 29 Jul 2025 View ↗

Application forms 1

PDF Application Form - Without Personal Data 398kb · 29 Jul 2025 View ↗

Other documents 3

PDF Storage Containers 472kb · 29 Jul 2025 View ↗ PDF Covering letter - redacted 159kb · 29 Jul 2025 View ↗ PDF Air Conditioning Details 2515kb · 29 Jul 2025 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Associated applications 3

Site constraints 2

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 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.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No listed building at the site

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Important details

Council
Dorset
Application type
Non Material Amendment
Postcode
DT9 6EP
Received
29 Jul 2025
Validated
29 Jul 2025
Ward
Yetminster Ward
Parish
Lillington
Case officer
Show
Decision
Refused
Decision date
22 Aug 2025
Decision level
Delegated

Historical activity at this location

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

This property

Previous applications at this address

2025 Approved
Non-material Amendment - Install Operations & Management Welfare building and site 4 No…
P/NMA/2025/05674
2024 Approved
Non-material amendment - revised siting of substation area; revised siting of DNO and cus…
P/NMA/2024/03931
Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2022 Approved
Lower Stockbridge Cottage Lower Stockbridge Farm Lillington Sherborne DT9 6EP
Erect single storey side/rear extension, (demolish attached garage/store).
P/HOU/2022/02136
2022 Approved
Land and Buildings known as Lower Stockbridge Farm, Stockbridge Timber Millers Lower Stockbridge Farm Stockbridge Sherborne DT9 6EP
Installation of 210 Biomass boiler, 40ft Log dryer, and 20ft Timber kiln.
P/FUL/2022/00543
2020 Approved
LOWER STOCKBRIDGE FARM, HIGHER STOCKBRIDGE FARM LILLINGTON TO J, STOCKBRIDGE, SHERBORNE, DT9 6EP
Notification of Application for premises to be approved as a venue for civil marriages &…
WD/D/20/003094
2017 Approved
LOWER STOCKBRIDGE FARM, SHERBORNE, DORSET, DT9 6EP
Notification of application for premises to be approved as a venue for Civil Marriages &…
WD/D/17/002852
Dorset
Planning Authority Score
7.5/10
Good
#44 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

Dorset is faster than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #51 out of 296. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (95%) than the national average (90%).

Faster than most councils
for householder decisions
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Dorset decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
92%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #80 of 296
95%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #74 of 296
78%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #51 of 296
35%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #102 of 296
81%
Minor dwellings approved
344 decided (1-9 homes)
85%
Major dwellings approved
40 decided (10+ homes)
76%
Change of use approved
85 decided
2,781
Total decisions
233 refused in the year to March 2026
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings