Land to the South of Bridgwater Road, and West of, Purving Row Lane, Lympsham, Weston-super-mare Data via plota.co.uk

31/26/00013 - Notice of Proposed Agricultural Devt. Approved

Proposal

Application to determine if prior approval is required for the erection of a 12m x 30m agricultural building for the storage of fodder & machinery Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
24 Aug 2026
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Approved
15 Sept 2026

Approved on 15 Sept 2026 · Last checked 24 Sept 2026

Site constraints 5

Flood zone 2, rivers and sea
Medium chance: between a 1 in 100 and 1 in 1,000 annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 to 1 in 1,000 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 ↗
Public restricted byway 14 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.
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: Restorable Habitat
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
Priority habitat 5 m away: Coastal and floodplain grazing marsh.
Not affected
Not green belt · No listed building at the site · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 October 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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Important details

Council
Sedgemoor
Application type
Notice of Proposed Agricultural Devt.
Received
24 Aug 2026
Validated
24 Aug 2026
Parish
Lympsham
Case officer
Show
Decision
Formal Application Not Required
Decision date
15 Sept 2026
Applicant
Show
Agent
Greenslade Taylor Hunt, Chancellors Pound

How this decision compares

Decided in 22 days from validation, 5 days faster than Sedgemoor's median of 27 for agricultural works. Approved, as 87% of agricultural works here are.

80%decided within 8 weeks
87%approved
85decided in the last year

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

Consultation & key dates

Consultation
11 Sept 2026
Comments by
14 Sept 2026