Land Centred Coordinates 378286 152031 Village Pump To Lullington Lane Lullington Frome Somerset Data via plota.co.uk

2026/0410/PAA - Prior App CoU Agricult. to Residential Refused

Proposal

Change of use of existing agricultural barns to 5 C3 dwellings under Class Q of the GPDO Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

✓
Received
3 Mar 2026
✓
Validated
13 Mar 2026
✗
Refused
5 May 2026
Appeal
Not lodged

Refused on 5 May 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 6 Jul 2026

Site constraints 6

Public footpath about 7 m away
Matters where it crosses or adjoins the site: obstructing a path without a diversion order is an offence, and work cannot start until the order is confirmed.
Compiled from highway authority data, not the legal definitive map. A few authorities have not published, so no path shown is not proof there is none.
Lullington and Orchardleigh conservation area
Demolition needs planning permission and permitted development is restricted.
The council must give weight to preserving or enhancing the area's character and appearance. Not every council has published its boundaries as open data.
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.
Registered park or garden about 11 m away: Orchardleigh
Its setting is a consideration for work nearby.
Registered parks and gardens, battlefields, world heritage sites and protected wrecks are designated heritage assets: harm needs clear and convincing justification.
Historic England ↗
Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 2
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 2.
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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Important details

Council
Mendip
Application type
Prior App CoU Agricult. to Residential
Postcode
BA11 2PW
Received
3 Mar 2026
Validated
13 Mar 2026
Ward
Frome North Division
Parish
Lullington Parish Meeting
Case officer
Show
Target decision
8 May 2026
Decision
Prior Approval Refused
Decision date
5 May 2026
Decision level
Delegated Decision
Applicant
Show
Agent
Arena Global Management Ltd

How this decision compares

Decided in 53 days from validation, about the council's usual 56 days. Refused, as 34% of changes of use here are.

52%decided within 8 weeks
66%approved
81decided in the last year

Plota live figures for changes of use decided by Mendip in the last twelve months, from validation. Mendip decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-14738942
Planning Portal ref
PP-14738942
Comments by
4 Apr 2026
Statutory expiry
8 May 2026
Env. assessment
No