Land to the North of, New Road, East Lyng, Taunton Data via plota.co.uk

32/25/00012 - Overhead Electric Line Formal Application Not Required

Proposal

Notification under the Overhead Lines (Exemption) (England and Wales) Regulations 2009 for the refurbishment of the pole mounted transformer on pole no. 21BCH33A, including the replacement of existing 25kVa transformer with a 100kVa transformer, replacement of 1No. existing 10.5m medium pole with 1No. 10.5m Stout pole, and replacement of existing stay wires. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
5 Nov 2025
Decision
Target date was 31 Dec 2025

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicted a decision around 29 Oct 2026; it is now day 358.

Documents

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Site constraints 7

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 ↗
Priority habitat: Coastal and floodplain grazing marsh
A habitat of principal importance. It shapes the ecology work and the biodiversity net gain a scheme has to show.
Agricultural land, grade 3a
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: Other Priority Habitats - NEZ
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Scheduled monument about 125 m away: Balt Moor Wall
Its setting is a consideration for work nearby.
Nationally important archaeology protected by the Secretary of State. Work that affects the monument or its setting is rarely permitted.
Historic England ↗
SSSI about 151 m away: North Moor SSSI
Natural England may need consulting, depending on what is proposed.
Sites of special scientific interest are the best wildlife and geological sites in the country. Development likely to harm one is rarely permitted.
Also on the record
Nature recovery project: Somerset Coast, Levels and Moors.
Not affected
Not green belt

Checked on 17 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.

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Important details

Council
Sedgemoor
Application type
Overhead Electric Line
Received
5 Nov 2025
Validated
5 Nov 2025
Parish
Lyng
Case officer
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Decision outlook

Day 358, past the statutory target. 87% of other in Sedgemoor are decided within thirteen weeks; extensions of time are common, and the council need not decide on the day. Last seen undecided on 14 Oct 2026.

Day 358302 days past the 56-day target
69%decided within 8 weeks
95%approved
2,189decided in the last year

Plota live figures for other decided across the UK in the last twelve months, from validation; too few recent other in Sedgemoor to go on. Sedgemoor decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Consultation
4 Feb 2026