Land to the East of (A38) Bristol Road, and North of, Downend Road, Puriton, Bridgwater, Somerset, TA6 Data via plota.co.uk

42/26/00019 - Outline Planning Permission Pending

Proposal

Outline planning application with all matters reserved apart from access (means of access), for the development of up to 410 dwellings (Class C3) and a commercial building (Class E), with landscaping, public open space (including formal play space and opportunities for a community orchard and allotments), drainage, highway and access improvements, and all associated infrastructure. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 10 Nov 2026, 03:13

Application progress

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Received

28 Oct 2026

Decision

Expected by 27 Jan 2027

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision between 15 Dec 2026 and 7 Jan 2027, from Sedgemoor's recent commercial and major works.

Comments are open until 3 Dec 2026

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Documents

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Site constraints 9

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.

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Priority habitat: Deciduous woodland

A habitat of principal importance. It shapes the ecology work and the biodiversity net gain a scheme has to show.

Habitat network: Other Priority Habitats - NEZ

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

Also on the record

National infrastructure project about 1150 m away: Hinkley Point C Connection; Scheduled monument about 187 m away: Motte with two baileys immediately east of Bristol Road, Down End; Nature recovery project: Somerset Coast, Levels and Moors; Radon affected area, class 4; National nature reserve about 449 m away: Somerset Wetlands; Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) had this area as grade 3, but it predates the buildings here and the current map does not class it as farmland.

Not affected

Not green belt

Checked on 1 November 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the Planning Inspectorate, 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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