Caravan, The Blue Anchor, Cleeve Hill, Watchet, TA24 6JP Data via plota.co.uk

3/26/26/004 - Removal of conditions Awaiting decision

Proposal

Removal of Condition No's 01 (time limit), 02 (landscaping), 04 (log pile), 05 (invertebrates hotel), 06 (parking and turning) and 08 (drainage) of application Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 2 Oct 2026, 18:12

Application progress

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Received

23 Feb 2026

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Consultation

25 Feb 2026

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Committee

28 Apr 2026

Decision

Expected by 20 Apr 2026

This application is under consideration - no decision has been issued yet. A decision is expected by 20 Apr 2026. The consultation period closed on 18 Mar 2026.

Planning committee

Decided by West Somerset West on 28 Apr 2026. The council has not yet issued its decision notice.

Approved unanimously

As officers recommended.

Officers advised approval because the cliff is more stable and the submitted condition details were acceptable, with safeguards retained.
The parish council raised concerns about instability, drainage, biodiversity and access, while no local representations were received.
The committee unanimously granted permission in line with the officer recommendation.

Read how the committee decided The proposal, site history, officers’ assessment, consultation responses, committee debate, vote and decision.

Source: Plota analysis of West Somerset's committee minutes of 28 Apr 2026.

Documents 14

Site constraints 5

Brean Down to Minehead across the site

Matters where it crosses or adjoins the site; the route and its margin are protected.

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. A site survey can differ.

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.

SSSI about 25 m away: Bridgwater Bay SSSI

Natural England may need consulting, depending on what is proposed.

Sites of special scientific interest are the best wildlife and geological sites in the country. Development likely to harm one is rarely permitted.

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

Priority habitat about 26 m away: Maritime cliff and slope.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 11 September 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 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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