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2026/0515/PAA - Prior App CoU Agricult. to Residential Refused

Proposal

Prior Approval for a proposed change of use of agricultural building to 3no. dwellinghouses (Class C3). Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

✓

Received

16 Mar 2026

✗

Refused

12 May 2026

Appeal

Not lodged

Refused on 12 May 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 5 Jul 2026

Documents 16

Consultation & comments 7

PDF Objector’s name hidden Show Public Comment · 30 Apr 2026 View ↗

PDF Objector’s name hidden Show Public Comment · 12 Apr 2026 View ↗

PDF Objector’s name hidden Show Public Comment · 9 Apr 2026 View ↗

PDF Objector’s name hidden Show Public Comment · 26 Mar 2026 View ↗

PDF CONLI - CONSULTEE LIST Neighbour Notification List · 23 Mar 2026 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 4

Agricultural land, grade 3b

Not 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 Expansion Zone

Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.

Radon affected area, class 6

An estimated 30% or more of homes reach the radon action level. Indicative for the 1 km square, which takes the highest class found in it; a radon test gives the answer for a building.

From the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency indicative atlas. Under building regulations, as the BRE guide BR 211 (2023) sets out, new buildings and extensions need basic radon protection from class 3 in England and Wales and from class 2 in Scotland, and full protection from class 5. The class at the site itself, from the detailed BGS map, decides which.

UKHSA radon ↗

Also on the record

Coalfield, development low risk area.

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 Mining Remediation Authority, 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: Mendip
Application type: Prior App CoU Agricult. to Residential
Postcode: BA3 5EX
Received: 16 Mar 2026
Validated: 16 Mar 2026
Ward: Mendip Hills Division
Parish: Kilmersdon Parish Council
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 11 May 2026
Decision: Prior Approval Refused
Decision date: 12 May 2026
Decision level: Delegated Decision
Applicant: Show
Agent: planning and land Partnership

How this decision compares

Decided in 57 days from validation, 20 days slower than Mendip's median of 37 for agricultural works. Refused, as 36% of agricultural works here are.

This one57d

Council37d

UK44d

84%decided within 8 weeks

64%approved

95decided in the last year

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