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2026/0437/PAA - Prior App CoU Agricult. to Residential Refused

Proposal

Prior Approval for a proposed change of use of agricultural building to 6no. dwellinghouses (Class C3). Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

✓
Received
4 Mar 2026
✗
Refused
29 Apr 2026
Appeal
Not lodged

Refused on 29 Apr 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 6 Jul 2026

Documents 41

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 4

1 listed building within 150 m of the postcode pin
Nearest: Standerwick Court Farmhouse, Grade II, about 21 m from the postcode pin
The site itself is not listed. Listed building consent is needed for work that affects the special interest of a listed building, inside or out, on top of planning permission. Setting can be a consideration for buildings nearby; there is no fixed radius.
Historic England ↗
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: 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 2PR
Received
4 Mar 2026
Validated
4 Mar 2026
Ward
Frome North Division
Parish
Beckington Parish Council
Case officer
Show
Target decision
29 Apr 2026
Decision
Prior Approval Refused
Decision date
29 Apr 2026
Decision level
Delegated Decision
Applicant
Show
Agent
Tadman Planning Consultants Ltd

How this decision compares

Decided in 56 days from validation, 19 days slower than Mendip's median of 37 for agricultural works. Refused, as 36% of agricultural works here are.

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 →

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-14750223
Planning Portal ref
PP-14750223
Comments by
17 Jun 2026
Statutory expiry
29 Apr 2026
Env. assessment
No