Lower Brown Farm, Chitcombe Rocks Lane, Huish Champflower, TA4 2EL Data via plota.co.uk

3/17/26/001 - Prior Approval (Agriculture/Forestry) Approved

Proposal

Application for prior notification for the erection of an agricultural storage shed for machinery, bedding and feed stuffs Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
29 Apr 2026
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Validated
4 Jun 2026
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Approved
1 Jul 2026

Approved on 1 Jul 2026 · Delegated · Last checked 26 Jul 2026

Site constraints 5

3 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin
Nearest: Middle Brown Farmhouse and Outbuilding Adjoining to East, Grade II, about 0 m from the postcode pin · 3 Grade II
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.
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Historic England ↗
Nutrient neutrality catchment: Tone Catchment
New homes and overnight accommodation must show nutrient neutrality before approval.
Natural England advice: extra wastewater in these catchments harms protected habitats, so schemes must offset their nutrient load, usually through credits.
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: Network Expansion Zone
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 3.
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

Application type
Prior Approval (Agriculture/Forestry)
Postcode
TA4 2EL
Received
29 Apr 2026
Validated
4 Jun 2026
Ward
Dulverton & Exmoor
Parish
Huish Champflower
Case officer
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Target decision
2 Jul 2026
Decision
Prior approval not required
Decision date
1 Jul 2026
Decision level
Delegated
Applicant
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How this decision compares

Decided in 27 days from validation, about the council's usual 30 days. Approved, as 79% of prior approvals here are.

96%decided within 8 weeks
79%approved
24decided in the last year

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

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-14899245
Planning Portal ref
PP-14899245
Statutory expiry
2 Jul 2026
Env. assessment
No