Land to the North of, Meadow Farm, The Causeway, Woolavington, Bridgwater, Somerset, TA7 Data via plota.co.uk

54/25/00021 - Full Planning Permission Approved

Proposal

Construction and operation of Synchronous Condenser Facilities, with associated ancillary infrastructure, buildings, access, landscaping and associated works. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
3 Nov 2025
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Approved
10 Jun 2026

Approved on 10 Jun 2026 · Last checked 14 Oct 2026

Planning committee

Decided by Sedgemoor North on 9 Jun 2026.

Approved by 9 votes to 0

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

  • The parish council asked for a deferral until a separate tender process was complete, warning that two competing schemes on nearby sites risked an unwanted fallback permission.
  • The legal officer said the tender process was separate from planning and each application had to be decided on its own planning merits.
  • The committee voted 9 to 0, with one abstention, to approve, with added conditions on highway surveys and construction management.
Read how the committee decided The competing-scheme concerns, the legal advice on the tender process, and the vote to approve.

Source: Plota analysis of Sedgemoor's committee minutes of 9 Jun 2026.

Documents

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Site constraints 8

Flood zone 3, rivers and sea
High chance: a 1 in 100 or greater annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 from the sea. Any development here needs a flood risk assessment. Defences are not counted.
The Environment Agency flood map for planning. Homes in zone 3 must also pass the sequential test. Surface water flooding is a separate map.
Flood map ↗
National infrastructure project about 232 m away: Hinkley Point C Connection
The site is about 232 m from the project boundary. Electricity line, decided. The project page says whether consent was granted. Also within 2 km: Hinkley Point C Connection Project Material Change (at pre-application, about 113 m).
Nationally significant infrastructure projects (power stations, electricity lines, pipelines, major roads and railways, harbours, airports and reservoirs) are consented by a Secretary of State under the Planning Act 2008, after an examination by the Planning Inspectorate, rather than by the council. The boundary is the one the Inspectorate consults on and can change as the scheme does. Projects are shown within 2 km of the site.
Planning Inspectorate project page ↗
Habitat network: Restorable Habitat
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
Nature recovery project: Somerset Coast, Levels and Moors; Priority habitat about 5 m away: Coastal and floodplain grazing marsh; Inside the Woolavington built-up area; Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) had this area as grade 3, but it predates the buildings here and the current map does not class it as farmland.
Not affected
Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 17 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 Planning Inspectorate, 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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Important details

Council
Sedgemoor
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Received
3 Nov 2025
Validated
3 Nov 2025
Parish
Woolavington
Case officer
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Decision
Granted Permission
Decision date
10 Jun 2026
Applicant
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Agent
Lichfields, Blok

How this decision compares

Decided in 219 days from validation, 165 days slower than Sedgemoor's median of 54 for full applications. Approved, as 91% of full applications here are.

56%decided within 8 weeks
91%approved
538decided in the last year

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Consultation & key dates

Consultation
29 May 2026
Comments by
1 Apr 2026