Forty Acres Farm Babcary Road South Barrow Yeovil Somerset BA22 7LE Data via plota.co.uk

26/01352/AGN - Agricultural notification 28 days Approved

Proposal

Application for prior notification of agricultural development for the erection of an agricultural building for the storage of hay, straw, machinery and general farm materials. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 24 Aug 2026, 08:59

Application progress

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Received

11 Jun 2026

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Approved

3 Jul 2026

Approved on 3 Jul 2026 · Delegated (Use on Recommendations) · Last checked 5 Jul 2026

Documents

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Site constraints 5

Nutrient neutrality catchment: Parrett 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.

Agricultural land, grade 3a

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 Expansion Zone

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

Also on the record

Radon affected area, class 2; National infrastructure project about 1405 m away: A303 Sparkford to Ilchester Dualling.

Not affected

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

Checked on 6 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: South Somerset
Application type: Agricultural notification 28 days
Postcode: BA22 7LE
Received: 11 Jun 2026
Validated: 11 Jun 2026
Ward: CASTLE CARY
Parish: Queen Camel
Target decision: 9 Jul 2026
Decision: Permission not required
Decision date: 3 Jul 2026
Decision level: Delegated (Use on Recommendations)
Applicant: Show

How this decision compares

Decided in 22 days from validation, 4 days faster than South Somerset's median of 26 for agricultural works. Approved, as 99% of agricultural works here are.

This one22d

Council26d

UK44d

83%decided within 8 weeks

99%approved

110decided in the last year

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