Stones Tenement, Frys Lane, Wiveliscombe Data via plota.co.uk

49/26/0003/AGN - Notification - Agricultural or Forestry Approved

Proposal

Application for prior notification for the formation of an agricultural track on land at Stones Tenement, Frys Lane, Wiveliscombe Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
16 Jan 2026
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Approved
21 Jan 2026

Approved on 21 Jan 2026 · the Development Control Manager under delgated powers · Last checked 15 Oct 2026

Site constraints 4

Nutrient neutrality catchment: Tone 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.
Public footpath about 21 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 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 14 October 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 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
Notification - Agricultural or Forestry
Received
16 Jan 2026
Validated
16 Jan 2026
Parish
Wiveliscombe
Case officer
Show
Target decision
13 Feb 2026
Decision
No Objection
Decision date
21 Jan 2026
Decision level
the Development Control Manager under delgated powers
Applicant
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Agent
LSL ARCHITECTURE LTD

How this decision compares

Decided in 5 days from validation, 41 days faster than Taunton Deane's median of 46 for agricultural works. Approved, as 64% of agricultural works here are.

73%decided within 8 weeks
64%approved
45decided in the last year

Plota live figures for agricultural works decided by Taunton Deane in the last twelve months, from validation. Taunton Deane decision record →