Batch Farm, Daggs Lane, Bagley, Wedmore, BS28 4TA Data via plota.co.uk

Pending 50/26/00079 - Prior Approval Agricultural to Dwelling

Council

Sedgemoor

Date received

19 Oct 2026

Date validated

19 Oct 2026

Postcode

BS28 4TA

Type

Prior Approval Agricultural to Dwelling

Description

Application to determine if prior approval is required for a proposed: Change of Use of Agricultural Buildings to 9 No. Dwellinghouses (Class C3), and associated building operations. Data via plota.co.uk

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Last checked 28 Oct 2026, 20:25

Decision outlook

Plota predicts a decision between 10 Nov 2026 and 23 Nov 2026, from Sedgemoor's recent agricultural works.

Day 10 of the 56-day target. Sedgemoor usually decides agricultural works by day 27.

prediction

Day 1046 days to the 56-day target

80%decided within 8 weeks

87%approved

85decided in the last year

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

Site constraints 8

Nutrient neutrality catchment: Brue 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.

Public footpath about 8 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.

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.

Special protection area about 277 m away: Somerset Levels & Moors

Work nearby can need a habitats assessment.

Harm to a protected site is only accepted where there is no alternative and an overriding public interest.

Also on the record

SSSI about 277 m away: Westhay Moor SSSI; Radon affected area, class 3; Priority habitat about 13 m away: Traditional orchard.

Not affected

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

Checked on 28 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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