DAMSON HOUSE, 9 Sloway Lane, West Huntspill, Highbridge, Somerset, TA9 3RJ Data via plota.co.uk

52/25/00018 - Full Planning Permission Approved

Proposal

Retrospective application for the erection of a equestrian storage building for housing of horse lorry, horse box and associated equipment, together with contained muck heap. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
4 Dec 2025
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Approved
16 Jan 2026

Approved on 16 Jan 2026 · Last checked 14 Oct 2026

Documents

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Site constraints 6

Flood zone 3, rivers and sea
High chance: a 1 in 100 or greater annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 from the sea. Any development here needs a flood risk assessment. Defences are not counted.
The Environment Agency flood map for planning. Homes in zone 3 must also pass the sequential test. Surface water flooding is a separate map.
Flood map ↗
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.
National nature reserve about 180 m away: Somerset Wetlands
Work nearby can need a habitats assessment.
Harm to a protected site is only accepted where there is no alternative and an overriding public interest.
Habitat network: Restorable Habitat
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; Priority habitat about 6 m away: Coastal and floodplain grazing marsh.
Not affected
Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 14 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 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.

Sales history 1

Last sold for £380,000 in July 2005. Detached house, freehold.

8 July 2005£380,000

Sale prices from HM Land Registry's price paid record, matched to this application by its address.

Building

Floor area426 m² (4,585 sq ft)
Energy ratingB (88 out of 100)
PropertyDetached house
Built2017
HeatingBoiler and radiators, oil
Walls²k

From the energy performance certificate lodged in October 2017, the latest held for this property, matched to this application by its address. The building may have changed since. View the certificate

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Important details

Council
Sedgemoor
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Postcode
TA9 3RJ
Received
4 Dec 2025
Validated
4 Dec 2025
Parish
West Huntspill
Case officer
Show
Decision
Granted Permission
Decision date
16 Jan 2026
Applicant
Show
Agent
James Venton Planning & Building Design, Unit 13

How this decision compares

Decided in 43 days from validation, 11 days faster than Sedgemoor's median of 54 for full applications. Approved, as 91% of full applications here are.

56%decided within 8 weeks
91%approved
538decided in the last year

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

Consultation & key dates

Consultation
4 Dec 2025
Comments by
3 Jan 2026

Historical activity at this location

4 nearby applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2016 Approved
Land at, Laburnum House Hotel, 4 Sloway Lane, West Huntspill, Highbridge, TA9 3RJ
Erection of six additional lodge units
52/16/00002
2016 Approved
Land at, Laburnum House Hotel, 4 Sloway Lane, West Huntspill, Highbridge, TA9 3RJ
Erection of six additional lodge units
52/16/00002
2016 Approved
Laburnum House, 4 Sloway Lane, West Huntspill, Highbridge, TA9 3RJ
Application for non-material minor amendment to Planning Permission 52/15/00001to adjust…
52/16/00001
2016 Approved
Laburnum House, 4 Sloway Lane, West Huntspill, Highbridge, TA9 3RJ
Application for non-material minor amendment to Planning Permission 52/15/00001to adjust…
52/16/00001

Sale prices: Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Energy performance: Energy performance certificates from the Energy Performance of Buildings Register, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright 2026.