Woolston Manor Farm Woolston Road North Cadbury Yeovil Somerset BA22 7BL Data via plota.co.uk

25/02879/PAMB - PA COU from Agri to Dwellings Refused

Proposal

Prior Approval Notification for Change of use of three agricultural buildings to 4 no. dwellinghouses and associated operational development. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received

2 Dec 2025

✓

Validated

3 Dec 2025

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Refused

19 Jan 2026

Appeal

Not lodged

Refused on 19 Jan 2026 · Delegated (Use on Recommendations) · Last checked 6 Oct 2026

Documents

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Site constraints 6

Grade II listed: Woolston Manor Farmhouse, and Front Boundary Wall With Railings

List entry 1178317 · 20 m away

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.

Historic England ↗

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), 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 Expansion Zone

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

Radon affected area, class 5

An estimated 10 to 30% of homes reach the radon action level. Indicative for the 1 km square, which takes the highest class found in it; a radon test gives the answer for a building.

From the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency indicative atlas. Under building regulations, as the BRE guide BR 211 (2023) sets out, new buildings and extensions need basic radon protection from class 3 in England and Wales and from class 2 in Scotland, and full protection from class 5. The class at the site itself, from the detailed BGS map, decides which.

UKHSA radon ↗

Scheduled monument 148 m away: Lower Woolston medieval settlement

Its setting is a consideration for work nearby.

Nationally important archaeology protected by the Secretary of State. Work that affects the monument or its setting is rarely permitted.

Historic England ↗

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt

Checked on 6 October 2026. 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: PA COU from Agri to Dwellings
Postcode: BA22 7BL
Received: 2 Dec 2025
Validated: 3 Dec 2025
Ward: CASTLE CARY
Parish: Yarlington
Target decision: 28 Jan 2026
Decision: Application Refused
Decision date: 19 Jan 2026
Decision level: Delegated (Use on Recommendations)
Applicant: Show
Agent: Woolley & Wallis

How this decision compares

Decided in 47 days from validation, 25 days slower than South Somerset's median of 22 for prior approvals. Refused, as 5% of prior approvals here are.

This one47d

Council22d

UK32d

96%decided within 8 weeks

95%approved

111decided in the last year

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