Sewage Disposal Works Back Town Butleigh Street Somerset BA6 8SB Data via plota.co.uk

2026/1616/HDG - Hedgerow Removal Approved

Proposal

2no. hedgerows located on eastern and southern boundary of Butleigh WRC Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
20 Aug 2026
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Approved
29 Sept 2026

Approved on 29 Sept 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 29 Sept 2026

Site constraints 4

Nutrient neutrality catchment: Brue 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 2.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No listed building at the site

Checked on 6 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.

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Important details

Council
Mendip
Application type
Hedgerow Removal
Postcode
BA6 8SB
Received
20 Aug 2026
Validated
20 Aug 2026
Ward
Mendip South Division
Parish
Butleigh Parish Council
Case officer
Show
Target decision
1 Oct 2026
Decision
Tree No Objection- FDN/HDG only
Decision date
29 Sept 2026
Decision level
Delegated Decision
Applicant
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How this decision compares

Decided in 40 days from validation, about the council's usual 41 days. Approved, as 96% of tree and landscaping works here are.

92%decided within 8 weeks
96%approved
361decided in the last year

Plota live figures for tree and landscaping works decided by Mendip in the last twelve months, from validation. Mendip decision record →

Public comments

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Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-15166814
Planning Portal ref
PP-15166814
Statutory expiry
1 Oct 2026
Env. assessment
No

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