Long Acre, Quarrylands Lane, Badgworth, Axbridge, Somerset, BS26 2QX Data via plota.co.uk

03/26/00006 - Prior Approval Agricultural to Dwelling Pending

Proposal

Application to determine if prior approval is required for a proposed: Change of Use of Agricultural Buildings to 7No. Dwellinghouses (Class C3), and associated building operations. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 27 Oct 2026, 03:03

Application progress

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Received

5 Aug 2026

Decision

Target date was 30 Sept 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicted a decision soon after comments close on 21 Oct 2026; it is now day 84.

The consultation period closed on 21 Oct 2026.

Documents

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Site constraints 6

Nutrient neutrality catchment: Brue 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 3a

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.

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

Nature recovery project: Somerset Coast, Levels and Moors; Radon affected area, class 2; National infrastructure project about 1842 m away: Hinkley Point C Connection.

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 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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Long Acre, Quarrylands Lane, Badgworth, Axbridge, Somerset, BS26 2QX

Application to determine if prior approval is required for a proposed change of ...

03/26/00008

Important details

Council: Sedgemoor
Application type: Prior Approval Agricultural to Dwelling
Postcode: BS26 2QX
Received: 5 Aug 2026
Validated: 5 Aug 2026
Parish: Badgworth
Case officer: Show
Applicant: Show
Agent: Mark Doodes Planning, Unit 1 The Old Barn

Decision outlook

Day 84, past the statutory target. 91% of agricultural works in Sedgemoor are decided within thirteen weeks, which runs to 4 Nov 2026; extensions of time are common, and the council need not decide on the day. Last seen undecided on 22 Oct 2026.

target

predicted

Day 8428 days past the 56-day target

80%decided within 8 weeks

87%approved

85decided in the last year

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