GE Mare Farm, Williton to Bridgwater Road, Nether Stowey, TA5 1DU Data via plota.co.uk

3/16/26/003 - Prior Approval (Agriculture/Forestry) Approved

Proposal

Application for prior notification for the erection of an agricultural building to store farm machinery and equipment Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 7 Oct 2026, 06:32

Application progress

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Received

6 Aug 2026

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Approved

21 Sept 2026

Approved on 21 Sept 2026 · Delegated · Last checked 24 Sept 2026

Documents 8

Site constraints 6

Quantock Hills National Landscape

Great weight to conserving the landscape; major development restricted.

Previously an area of outstanding natural beauty, which is still the designation in law. Since 2023 authorities must seek to further its purpose, not merely have regard to it.

Habitat network: Other Priority Habitats - NEZ

Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.

SSSI about 103 m away: The Quantocks 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

Radon affected area, class 4; Priority habitat about 18 m away: Deciduous woodland; Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) had this area as grade 3, but it predates the buildings here and the current map does not class it as farmland.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · 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: West Somerset
Application type: Prior Approval (Agriculture/Forestry)
Postcode: TA5 1DU
Received: 6 Aug 2026
Validated: 6 Aug 2026
Ward: Watchet & Stogursey
Parish: Holford
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 3 Sept 2026
Decision: Prior approval not required
Decision date: 21 Sept 2026
Decision level: Delegated
Applicant: Show
Agent: Bateman Hosegood Ltd

How this decision compares

Decided in 46 days from validation, 16 days slower than West Somerset's median of 30 for prior approvals. Approved, as 79% of prior approvals here are.

This one46d

Council30d

UK33d

96%decided within 8 weeks

79%approved

24decided in the last year

Plota live figures for prior approvals decided by West Somerset in the last twelve months, from validation. West Somerset decision record →