Units 3b 4 And 5, Express Park, Bristol Road, Bridgwater, Somerset, TA6 4RN Data via plota.co.uk

Pending 08/26/00075 - Prior Approval for Solar PV - Non Dom

Solar & renewables

Council

Sedgemoor

Date received

6 Aug 2026

Date validated

6 Aug 2026

Postcode

TA6 4RN

Type

Prior Approval for Solar PV - Non Dom

Description

Application to determine if prior approval is required for a proposed installation of other Solar Photovoltaics (PV) equipment on the roofs of non-domestic buildings. Data via plota.co.uk

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Last checked 28 Oct 2026, 12:06

Decision outlook

Plota predicted a decision around 29 Oct 2026; it is now day 84.

Day 84, past the statutory target. 98% of prior approvals in Sedgemoor are decided within thirteen weeks, which runs to 5 Nov 2026; extensions of time are common, and the council need not decide on the day. Last seen undecided on 4 Sept 2026.

target

predicted

Day 8428 days past the 56-day target

95%decided within 8 weeks

89%approved

134decided in the last year

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

Site constraints 6

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.

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Agricultural land, grade 3b, surveyed

Not best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Source: Natural England's post-1988 ALC field survey (Bristol).

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.

Survey report ↗

Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 1

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

Also on the record

National infrastructure project about 1087 m away: Hinkley Point C Connection; Inside the Bridgwater built-up area; Priority habitat about 43 m away: Coastal and floodplain grazing marsh.

Not affected

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 Planning Inspectorate 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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