The Barn Hobhouse Farm Hobhouse Lane North Wootton Shepton Mallet Somerset BA4 4HE Data via plota.co.uk

2026/1966/HSE - Householder Application Registered

Proposal

Single storey link extension between main building & ancillary outbuilding Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received

13 Oct 2026

Decision

Expected by 8 Dec 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision around 6 Dec 2026, from Mendip's recent extensions.

Documents 21

Statements & assessments 2

PDF PLANNING STATEMENT Report · 12 Oct 2026 View ↗ PDF BIODIVERSITY CHECKLIST Report · 9 Oct 2026 View ↗

Plans & drawings 16

Application forms 1

PDF APPLICATION FORM - WITHOUT PERSONAL DATA Application Form · 12 Oct 2026 View ↗

Consultation & comments 1

PDF CONLI - CONSULTEE LIST Neighbour Notification List · 13 Oct 2026 View ↗

Site constraints 6

Public footpath 11 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 4

Poor quality farmland, not best and most versatile. 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), which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 3. The predicted grade is Defra's current estimate; only a site survey settles it.

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 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

Nature recovery project: Somerset Coast, Levels and Moors; Radon affected area, class 4; Priority habitat 25 m away: Traditional orchard.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No listed building at the site

Checked on 15 October 2026. 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.