Windy Ridge Corton Denham Road Corton Denham Sherborne Dorset DT9 4LX Data via plota.co.uk

26/01735/HOU - Householder Application Approved

Proposal

Remove existing conservatory and replace with a single storey extension which will provide a downstairs wet room and garden room. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
27 Jul 2026
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Approved
4 Sept 2026

Approved on 4 Sept 2026 · Delegated (Use on Recommendations) · Last checked 7 Sept 2026

Site constraints 7

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 3b
Not 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.
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 2
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 ↗
Also on the record
Priority habitat 29 m away: Lowland calcareous grassland; Open access land 14 m away: Access Land - Combined Open Country, Registered Common Land and Section 16 Dedicated Land. MoD Byelaw, Section 28 Exclusions, Racecourses and Aerodromes and ECP Margin have been removed..
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, 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

Application type
Householder Application
Postcode
DT9 4LX
Received
27 Jul 2026
Validated
27 Jul 2026
Ward
BLACKMOOR VALE
Parish
Corton Denham
Target decision
21 Sept 2026
Decision
Application Permitted with Conditions
Decision date
4 Sept 2026
Decision level
Delegated (Use on Recommendations)
Applicant
Show
Agent
Tim Cole Downes Limited

How this decision compares

Decided in 39 days from validation, about the council's usual 39 days. Approved, as 97% of extensions here are.

86%decided within 8 weeks
97%approved
369decided in the last year

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

Public comments

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1 neighbour consulted · Last counted 7 Sept 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-15113692
Planning Portal ref
PP-15113692
Statutory expiry
21 Sept 2026
Env. assessment
No