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Council
Somerset 6.1/10
Date received
23 Sept 2026
Date validated
23 Sept 2026

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Decision outlook

Plota predicts a decision around 15 Nov 2026, from Somerset's recent full applications.

Day 16 of the 56-day target. Somerset usually decides full applications by day 53.

Day 1640 days to the 56-day target
54%decided within 8 weeks
91%approved
1,039decided in the last year

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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 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.
Habitat network: Other Priority Habitats - NEZ
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 4; Priority habitat about 0 m away: Deciduous woodland.
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.

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Somerset
Planning Authority Score
6.1/10
Average
#100 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

Somerset is faster than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #88 out of 296. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (94%) than the national average (90%).

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for householder decisions
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Somerset decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
88%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #161 of 296
94%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #117 of 296
74%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #88 of 296
39%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #143 of 296
78%
Minor dwellings approved
699 decided (1-9 homes)
92%
Major dwellings approved
77 decided (10+ homes)
89%
Change of use approved
158 decided
3,740
Total decisions
438 refused in the year to March 2026
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings