West Down Orchard Touring Park Lopenhead South Petherton Somerset TA13 5JH Data via plota.co.uk

26/02116/COL - Certificate of Lawful Use or Development Awaiting decision

Proposal

Application for a Certificate of Lawfulness of Proposed Use or Development for the following proposed use: Proposed mixed use of West Down Orchard Park for touring caravans for holiday periods and 32 touring or static caravans for main or sole permanent residence. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 8 Oct 2026, 06:53

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Application progress

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Received

8 Sept 2026

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Validated

30 Sept 2026

Decision

Expected by 25 Nov 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision between 18 Nov 2026 and 25 Nov 2026, from South Somerset's recent changes of use.

Documents

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Site constraints 3

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.

Agricultural land, grade 1

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) agrees.

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.

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