Penarron, New Road, West Lyng, Taunton, TA3 5AP Data via plota.co.uk

32/25/00004 - Outline Planning Permission Refused

Proposal

Outline application with some matters reserved, for the erection of 1No. self-build dwelling and garage, division of existing curtilage & new access thereto, within the existing domestic curtilage of the existing dwelling. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 16 Oct 2026, 04:45

Application progress

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Received

28 Aug 2025

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Refused

19 Jan 2026

Appeal

Not lodged

Refused on 19 Jan 2026 · Last checked 16 Oct 2026

Planning committee

Decided by Sedgemoor North on 13 Jan 2026.

Refused by 7 votes to 2

As officers recommended.

No officer report was published for this decision; this summary is from the committee minutes.

For refusal7

Against2

A supporter said the site was within an existing domestic curtilage, not open countryside, and that the applicant would surrender an already-approved fallback dwelling.
The local councillor and the parish council supported the scheme, citing West Lyng's strong bus links and the surrender of the fallback approval.
Councillors said the visibility available fell well short of the distance needed for the road's speed limit, and voted 7 to 2 to refuse.

Read how the committee decided The debate over traffic speeds and visibility, and the vote to refuse.

Source: Plota analysis of Sedgemoor's committee minutes of 13 Jan 2026.

Documents

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Site constraints 4

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.

Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 1

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

Also on the record

Special protection area about 407 m away: Somerset Levels & Moors; SSSI about 407 m away: Curry and Hay Moors SSSI.

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

Council: Sedgemoor
Application type: Outline Planning Permission
Postcode: TA3 5AP
Received: 28 Aug 2025
Validated: 28 Aug 2025
Parish: Lyng
Case officer: Show
Decision: Refuse Planning Permission
Decision date: 19 Jan 2026
Applicant: Show
Agent: Berry Associates

How this decision compares

Decided in 144 days from validation, 66 days slower than Sedgemoor's median of 78 for outline applications. Refused, as 48% of outline applications here are.

This one144d

Council78d

UK67d

19%decided within 8 weeks

52%approved

26decided in the last year

Plota live figures for outline applications decided by Sedgemoor in the last twelve months, from validation. Sedgemoor decision record →