Bridge Cottage Main Street Dowlish Wake Ilminster Somerset TA19 0NY Data via plota.co.uk

26/01659/TCA - Work to Trees Approved

Proposal

Notification of intent to carry out Tree Surgery Works to No. 2 Trees within a Conservation Area. T1 - Unable to identify type of tree - Tree by front gate branches starting to obstruct pavement. Thin out. T2 - Large walnut sapling at rear of garden. Reduce height to 15ft AMENDED SPECIFICATION 20.08.26 T1 - Goat Willow - Thin by no more than 15% T2 - Hazel - reduce to 15ft… Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

Received
17 Jul 2026
Approved
1 Sept 2026

Approved on 1 Sept 2026 · Delegated (Use on Recommendations) · Last checked 2 Sept 2026

Site constraints 7

Grade II listed: Wayside Cottage
List entry 1056192 · 12 m from the pin · 6 more listed buildings within 150 m (1 Grade II*, 5 Grade II)
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.
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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. Predicted from the national soil map. The older provisional map, 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 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.
Not affected
Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 11 September 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

Application type
Work to Trees
Postcode
TA19 0NY
Received
17 Jul 2026
Validated
17 Jul 2026
Ward
ILMINSTER
Parish
Dowlish Wake
Target decision
28 Aug 2026
Decision
Application Permitted
Decision date
1 Sept 2026
Decision level
Delegated (Use on Recommendations)
Applicant
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How this decision compares

Decided in 46 days from validation, 8 days slower than South Somerset's median of 38 for tree and landscaping works. Approved, as 97% of tree and landscaping works here are.

92%decided within 8 weeks
97%approved
193decided 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 →

Public comments

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Last counted 2 Sept 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-15092489
Env. assessment
No