Row Farm House Row Lane Laverton Frome Somerset BA2 7RA Data via plota.co.uk

2026/1147/LBC - Listed Building Consent Refused

Proposal

Installation of through floor lift Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

Received
18 Jun 2026
Refused
10 Aug 2026
Appeal
Not lodged

Refused on 10 Aug 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 11 Aug 2026

Site constraints 4

Agricultural land, grade 4
Poor quality farmland, not best and most versatile. Predicted from the national soil map. The older provisional map, 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 20 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.
3 listed buildings within 150 m
Nearest: Barn on Roadside at Rear of Row Farm House (in Separate Ownership), Grade II, 31 m away · 3 Grade II
The site itself is not listed. 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.
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Historic England ↗
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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Important details

Council
Mendip
Application type
Listed Building Consent
Postcode
BA2 7RA
Received
18 Jun 2026
Validated
18 Jun 2026
Ward
Mendip Central And East Division
Parish
Hemington Parish Council
Case officer
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Target decision
13 Aug 2026
Decision
Refusal
Decision date
10 Aug 2026
Decision level
Delegated Decision
Applicant
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Agent
Architectural Service

How this decision compares

Decided in 53 days from validation, about the council's usual 53 days. Refused, as 12% of extensions here are.

68%decided within 8 weeks
88%approved
298decided in the last year

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

Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 11 Aug 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-15017561
Env. assessment
No