Mill Farm Mill Lane Dowlish Wake Ilminster Somerset TA19 0NY Data via plota.co.uk

26/01377/TCA - Work to Trees Approved

Proposal

Notification of intent to carry out Tree Surgery Works to No. 1 Tree within a Conservation Area. T1= Ash tree with die-back, 50 feet in height. Reduce back to 35 feet to make safer and hopefully reinvigorate the growth of the tree. Reduce lines are marked on the attached photograph to show approximate pruning points. The tree is growing above the mill channel (leat) so the client is concerned that if nothing is done the tree will begin to shed limbs which could block the leat. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 24 Aug 2026, 08:59

Application progress

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Received

15 Jun 2026

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Approved

16 Jul 2026

Approved on 16 Jul 2026 · Delegated (Use on Recommendations) · Last checked 17 Jul 2026

Documents

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Site constraints 8

7 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin

Nearest: Wayside Cottage, Grade II, about 12 m from the postcode pin · 1 Grade II*, 6 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.

Show all 7 with distances

12 mWayside CottageGrade II
27 mPerrys Cider MillGrade II
29 mPackhorse BridgeGrade II
62 mHigher FarmhouseGrade II*
78 mThe Dower HouseGrade II
125 mThe KeepersGrade II
144 mOutbuilding, About 10 Metres North East of the KeepersGrade II

Historic England ↗

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 ↗

Nutrient neutrality catchment: Parrett 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.

Dowlish Wake conservation area

Demolition needs planning permission and permitted development is restricted.

The council must give weight to preserving or enhancing the area's character and appearance. Not every council has published its boundaries as open data.

Council document ↗

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.

Public footpath about 22 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.

Also on the record

Radon affected area, class 2.

Not affected

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

Council: South Somerset
Application type: Work to Trees
Postcode: TA19 0NY
Received: 15 Jun 2026
Validated: 15 Jun 2026
Ward: ILMINSTER
Parish: Dowlish Wake
Target decision: 27 Jul 2026
Decision: Application Permitted
Decision date: 16 Jul 2026
Decision level: Delegated (Use on Recommendations)
Applicant: Show
Agent: Greenheart tree surgery

How this decision compares

Decided in 31 days from validation, 10 days faster than South Somerset's median of 41 for tree and landscaping works. Approved, as 97% of tree and landscaping works here are.

This one31d

Council41d

UK36d

91%decided within 8 weeks

97%approved

272decided in the last year

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