Spring Farm Ford Road Litton Wells Somerset BA3 4PL Data via plota.co.uk

2026/1731/HSE - Householder Application Registered

Proposal

Erection of Orangery attached to existing detached dwellinghouse. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 27 Oct 2026, 20:02

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Application progress

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Received

10 Sept 2026

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Validated

11 Sept 2026

Decision

Expected by 6 Nov 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision around 4 Nov 2026, from Mendip's recent extensions.

The consultation period closed on 21 Oct 2026.

Documents 21

Statements & assessments 4

PDF FLOOD RISK ASSESSMENT Report · 9 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF DESIGN AND ACCESS STATEMENT Report · 9 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF BIODIVERSITY CHECKLIST Report · 9 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF HERITAGE STATEMENT Report · 9 Sept 2026 View ↗

Plans & drawings 15

Application forms 1

PDF APPLICATION FORM - WITHOUT PERSONAL DATA Application Form · 9 Sept 2026 View ↗

Consultation & comments 1

PDF CONLI - CONSULTEE LIST Neighbour Notification List · 11 Sept 2026 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 7

Grade II listed: Spring Farmhouse and Attached Outbuilding

List entry 1260567 · 0 m away

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.

Historic England ↗

Mendip 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.

Litton conservation area

Demolition needs planning permission and permitted development is restricted.

The council must give weight to preserving or enhancing the area's character and appearance. Not every council has published its boundaries as open data.

Council document ↗

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.

Radon affected area, class 5

An estimated 10 to 30% of homes reach the radon action level. Indicative for the 1 km square, which takes the highest class found in it; a radon test gives the answer for a building.

From the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency indicative atlas. Under building regulations, as the BRE guide BR 211 (2023) sets out, new buildings and extensions need basic radon protection from class 3 in England and Wales and from class 2 in Scotland, and full protection from class 5. The class at the site itself, from the detailed BGS map, decides which.

UKHSA radon ↗

Also on the record

Coalfield, development low risk area.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the Mining Remediation Authority, 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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