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26/P/1460/TBCN - Temporary Class BC - Prior Notification Approved

Proposal

Prior Notification for the use land as a temporary recreational campsite Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 8 Oct 2026, 02:27

Application progress

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Received

13 Jul 2026

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Approved

15 Jul 2026

Approved on 15 Jul 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 1 Oct 2026

Documents 1

Site constraints 8

Mendip Hills National Landscape

Great weight to conserving the landscape; major development restricted.

Previously an area of outstanding natural beauty, which is still the designation in law. Since 2023 authorities must seek to further its purpose, not merely have regard to it.

Agricultural land, grade 2

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), which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 4. 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: Other Priority Habitats - NEZ

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

Also on the record

National infrastructure project about 1353 m away: Hinkley Point C Connection; Radon affected area, class 4; Special area of conservation about 421 m away: Mendip Limestone Grasslands; SSSI about 421 m away: Crook Peak to Shute Shelve Hill SSSI; Priority habitat about 15 m away: Deciduous woodland.

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: North Somerset
Application type: Temporary Class BC - Prior Notification
Received: 13 Jul 2026
Validated: 13 Jul 2026
Ward: Banwell And Winscombe
Parish: Winscombe And Sandford
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 10 Aug 2026
Decision: Prior approval not required
Decision date: 15 Jul 2026
Decision level: Delegated Decision
Applicant: Show

How this decision compares

Decided in 2 days from validation, 54 days faster than North Somerset's median of 56 for changes of use. Approved, as 90% of changes of use here are.

This one2d

Council56d

UK56d

56%decided within 8 weeks

90%approved

91decided in the last year

Plota live figures for changes of use decided by North Somerset in the last twelve months, from validation. North Somerset decision record →

Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 1 Oct 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Comments by: 4 Aug 2026
Statutory expiry: 10 Aug 2026
Env. assessment: No

North Somerset

Planning Authority Score

6.4/10

Average

#83 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Householder decisions

North Somerset is faster than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #96 out of 296. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (93%) than the national average (90%).

Faster than most councils

for householder decisions

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

North Somerset decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

89%

Overall approval rate

Above avg (87%) #137 of 296

93%

Householder approved

Above avg (90%) #134 of 296

73%

Decided in 8 weeks

Above avg (63%) #96 of 296

34%

Extended time limit

Below avg (41%) #88 of 296

74%

Minor dwellings approved

135 decided (1-9 homes)

95%

Major dwellings approved

19 decided (10+ homes)

85%

Change of use approved

52 decided

1,139

Total decisions

128 refused in the year to March 2026