Land At 342913 141933 Shapwick Road Westhay Glastonbury Somerset Data via plota.co.uk

2025/1877/FUL - Full Application Refused

Proposal

Proposed new dwelling on land in orchard. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

✓
Received
16 Oct 2025
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Refused
6 Jan 2026
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Appeal dismissed
24 Sept 2026

Refused on 6 Jan 2026 · Chair/Vice Chair · Last checked 18 Oct 2026

Site constraints 8

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), which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 4. 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.
Public footpath 23 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.
Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 1
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Scheduled monument 134 m away: Sections of the Sweet Track and Post Track, 240m south west of Sunnyside Farm
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 ↗
Also on the record
Nature recovery project: Somerset Coast, Levels and Moors; National nature reserve 472 m away: Somerset Wetlands; Priority habitat 20 m away: Coastal and floodplain grazing marsh.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No listed building at the site

Checked on 18 October 2026. 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
Mendip
Application type
Full Application
Postcode
BA6 9TT
Received
16 Oct 2025
Validated
16 Oct 2025
Ward
Mendip West Division
Parish
Meare Parish Council
Case officer
Show
Target decision
7 Jan 2026
Decision
Refusal
Decision date
6 Jan 2026
Decision level
Chair/Vice Chair
Appeal
Dismissed · 24 Sept 2026 · Written Representations · Inspectorate case 6010020 ↗
Applicant
Show
Agent
Salmon Planning Company

How this decision compares

Decided in 82 days from validation, 20 days slower than Mendip's median of 62 for full applications. Refused, as 24% of full applications here are.

42%decided within 8 weeks
76%approved
269decided in the last year

Plota live figures for full applications decided by Mendip in the last twelve months, from validation. Mendip decision record →

Public comments

1comment received
1 supporting

1 neighbour consulted · Last counted 18 Oct 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-14367366
Planning Portal ref
PP-14367366
Comments by
19 Nov 2025
Statutory expiry
11 Dec 2025
Env. assessment
No