Land adjacent to the B3151 and Hythe Lane, BS27 3EH, Wedmore Road, Cheddar, Somerset, BS27 3EH Data via plota.co.uk

17/26/00064 - Screening opinion Pending

Proposal

Request for EIA Screening Opinion for the proposed geotechnical investigations inclusive of; compaction trials, trial embankment and associated works ('Embankment Trials'). Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 27 Oct 2026, 03:03

Application progress

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Received

8 Oct 2026

Decision

Expected by 3 Dec 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision between 25 Nov 2026 and 18 Dec 2026, from Sedgemoor's recent commercial and major works.

Comments are open until 28 Oct 2026

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Documents

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Site constraints 5

Agricultural land, grade 4

Poor quality farmland, not best and most versatile. 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.

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

Nature recovery project: Somerset Coast, Levels and Moors; Radon affected area, class 2; Flood defence about 42 m from the postcode pin (embankment, designed for a 1 in 100 year flood).

Not affected

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

Checked on 13 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, 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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