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2026/0460/APP - Approval of Details - Cond Decided

Proposal

Approval of details reserved by condition 10 (Drainage) 11 (Reptile Strategy) 12 (External Lighting) 13 (Tree Protection Plan) 14 (Nesting Bird Protection) 15 (Biodiversity Enhancement) 16 (European Protected Species Induction) 17 (RAMMS) and 18 (Surface Water Drainage System) on planning consent … Data via plota.co.uk

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9 Mar 2026

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Conditions Split

3 Jun 2026

Conditions Split on 3 Jun 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 6 Jul 2026

Documents 14

Associated applications 3

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Variation23 Oct 2025council archive

Conditions 12 discharged · 10 decided (outcome not recorded)
- ConditionsApproval of details reserved by condition 10 (Drainage) 11 (Reptile Strategy) 12 (External…This application9 Mar 20262026/0460/APP
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  - ConditionsApproval of details reserved by condition 12 (External Lighting)10 Jul 20262026/1306/APP

Site constraints 4

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.

Priority habitat: Traditional orchard

A habitat of principal importance. It shapes the ecology work and the biodiversity net gain a scheme has to show.

Agricultural land, grade 4

Poor quality farmland, not best and most versatile. Predicted from the national soil map. The older provisional map, 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: Traditional orchards

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

Not affected

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

Checked on 11 September 2026. 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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