Orchard Barn Woodford Farm Road Woodford Wells Somerset BA5 1QQ Data via plota.co.uk

2025/2167/HSE - Householder Application Approved

Proposal

First floor rear extension, and alterations to existing dwellinghouse. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received

2 Dec 2025

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Approved

21 Jan 2026

Approved on 21 Jan 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 5 Oct 2026

Documents 10

Site constraints 3

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 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.

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 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.

Building

Floor area210 m² (2,260 sq ft)

Energy ratingD (59 out of 100), could reach B

PropertyDetached house, 6 habitable rooms

Built1991 to 1995

HeatingBoiler and radiators, oil

WallsSandstone or limestone, as built, insulated (assumed)

From the energy performance certificate lodged in August 2024, the latest held for this property. The building may have changed since. View the certificate

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Important details

Council: Mendip
Application type: Householder Application
Postcode: BA5 1QQ
Received: 2 Dec 2025
Validated: 2 Dec 2025
Ward: Mendip West Division
Parish: St Cuthbert Out Parish Council
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 27 Jan 2026
Decision: Approval
Decision date: 21 Jan 2026
Decision level: Delegated Decision
Applicant: Show
Agent: Hill Reading Architects

How this decision compares

Decided in 50 days from validation, about the council's usual 51 days. Approved, as 90% of householder applications here are.

This one50d

Council51d

UK55d

75%decided within 8 weeks

90%approved

237decided in the last year

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

Public comments

No public comments yet.

1 neighbour consulted · Last counted 5 Oct 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference: PP-14530204
Planning Portal ref: PP-14530204
Comments by: 24 Dec 2025
Statutory expiry: 27 Jan 2026
Env. assessment: No

Energy performance: Energy performance certificates from the Energy Performance of Buildings Register, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright 2026.