Land to the North East of, Splatt Lane, Spaxton, Bridgwater, Somerset, TA5 Data via plota.co.uk

45/26/00017 - Full Planning Permission Approved

Proposal

Construction of Agricultural Livestock Building Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
21 Sept 2026
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Approved
27 Oct 2026

Approved on 27 Oct 2026 · Last checked 28 Oct 2026

Site constraints 7

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 ↗
Spaxton conservation area
Demolition needs planning permission and permitted development is restricted.
The council must give weight to preserving or enhancing the area's character and appearance. Not every council has published its boundaries as open data.
Council document ↗
Agricultural land, grade 3b
Not 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.
Scheduled monument 157 m away: Churchyard cross in St Margaret's churchyard
Its setting is a consideration for work nearby.
Nationally important archaeology protected by the Secretary of State. Work that affects the monument or its setting is rarely permitted.
Historic England ↗
Also on the record
4 listed buildings within 150 m; Radon affected area, class 4.
Not affected
Not green belt

Checked on 6 October 2026. 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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Important details

Council
Sedgemoor
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Received
21 Sept 2026
Validated
21 Sept 2026
Parish
Spaxton
Case officer
Show
Decision
Granted Permission
Decision date
27 Oct 2026
Applicant
Show
Agent
James Venton Planning & Building Design, Unit 13

How this decision compares

Decided in 36 days from validation, 9 days slower than Sedgemoor's median of 27 for agricultural works. Approved, as 87% of agricultural works here are.

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 →

Consultation & key dates

Consultation
28 Sept 2026
Comments by
27 Oct 2026