GIBB HILL, Cothelstone, Taunton, TA4 3DX Data via plota.co.uk

45/26/00009 - Application for non-material changes Withdrawn

Proposal

Application for Non-Material Amendment to Planning Permission (Change of use of agricultural land to form part of residential curtilage and formation of horse riding arena) to allow for the owners of the horses that reside at Gibb Hill to use the arena to exercise and train their own horses (removing the condition "The horse riding arena shall be used only be persons residing at Gibb Hill and not by any other persons whatsoever.") Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 13 Sept 2026, 05:43

Application progress

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Received

13 Aug 2026

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Withdrawn

19 Aug 2026

Withdrawn on 19 Aug 2026 · Last checked 12 Sept 2026

Documents

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Site constraints 3

Quantock Hills National Landscape

Great weight to conserving the landscape; major development restricted.

Previously an area of outstanding natural beauty, which is still the designation in law. Since 2023 authorities must seek to further its purpose, not merely have regard to it.

Agricultural land, grade 3a

Best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Predicted from the national soil map. The older provisional map, which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 4. 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.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · 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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