Parcel 7259, Hayeswood Road, Farmborough, Bath, Data via plota.co.uk

26/04053/PIP - Permission in Principle Pending Consideration

Proposal

Erection of one dwelling (Permission in principle) Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 28 Oct 2026, 10:58

Application progress

✓

Received

19 Oct 2026

✓

Validated

26 Oct 2026

Decision

Expected by 30 Nov 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision between 29 Dec 2026 and 1 Feb 2027, from Bath's recent new homes.

Documents

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Site constraints 6

Green belt: Bath and Bristol

Inappropriate development needs very special circumstances.

Green belt policy allows a short list of exceptions, such as limited extensions and replacement buildings. Anything else needs very special circumstances that clearly outweigh the harm. Some green belt land can count as grey belt, where it does not strongly serve the green belt's purposes. The council decides this in its green belt assessment or on each application, so we do not mark it here.

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Public footpath about 11 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 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 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

Radon affected area, class 3; Coalfield, development low risk area.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · 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 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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Nearby new applications

14 Oct 2026Pending

Crossway Stables , Bath Road, Farmborough, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0HJ

Erection of new dwelling (amendment to planning permission 24/02995/FUL)

26/04009/FUL

Important details

Council: Bath
Application type: Permission in Principle
Received: 19 Oct 2026
Validated: 26 Oct 2026
Ward: Clutton And Farmborough
Parish: Farmborough
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 30 Nov 2026
Applicant: Show
Agent: Tadman Planning Consultants

Decision outlook

Day 3 of the 56-day target. Bath usually decides new homes by day 90.

prediction

Day 387 days to the predicted decision (day 90)

30%decided within 8 weeks

88%approved

73decided in the last year

Plota live figures for new homes decided by Bath in the last twelve months, from validation. Bath decision record →

Bath

Planning Authority Score

4.8/10

Below average

#157 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Householder decisions

Bath is slower than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #236 out of 296. Householder applications are more likely to be approved here than most councils, with a 97% approval rate vs 90% nationally.

More permissive than most councils

97% approved vs 90% nationally

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance

Bath decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

95%

Overall approval rate

Above avg (87%) #17 of 296

97%

Householder approved

Above avg (90%) #26 of 296

50%

Decided in 8 weeks

Below avg (63%) #236 of 296

46%

Extended time limit

Above avg (41%) #199 of 296

87%

Minor dwellings approved

172 decided (1-9 homes)

86%

Major dwellings approved

7 decided (10+ homes)

85%

Change of use approved

26 decided

1,817

Total decisions

96 refused in the year to March 2026