Millway Cottage Millway Rodney Stoke Cheddar Somerset BS27 3XA Data via plota.co.uk

2026/0299/OHL - Overhead Electricity Lines Decided

Proposal

The refurbishment of the pole mounted transformer on pole no. 18GF15, including the replacement of the existing 15kVa transformer with 50kVa transformer. The existing 11m Medium pole will be replaced by a 11m Stout pole. The existing stay wire will also be replaced. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

✓
Received
12 Feb 2026
Decision
Expected by 26 Mar 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicted a decision around 9 Oct 2026; it is now day 239.

Site constraints 5

Public footpath 14 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 4
Poor quality farmland, not best and most versatile. 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 3. 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: 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
National landscape 123 m away: Mendip Hills; Radon affected area, class 2.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No listed building at the site

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.

Sales history 3

Last sold for £363,880 in May 2007. Detached house, freehold.

11 May 2007£363,880
31 May 2002£285,000
26 January 2000£235,000

Sale prices from HM Land Registry's price paid record, matched to this application by its address.

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Important details

Council
Mendip
Application type
Overhead Electricity Lines
Postcode
BS27 3XA
Received
12 Feb 2026
Validated
12 Feb 2026
Ward
Mendip West Division
Parish
Rodney Stoke Parish Council
Case officer
Show
Target decision
26 Mar 2026
Decision level
Delegated Decision
Applicant
Show

Decision outlook

Day 239, past the statutory target. 92% of other in Mendip are decided within thirteen weeks; extensions of time are common, and the council need not decide on the day. Last seen undecided on 5 Oct 2026.

Day 239183 days past the 56-day target
76%decided within 8 weeks
96%approved
1,642decided in the last year

Plota live figures for other decided across the UK in the last twelve months, from validation; too few recent other in Mendip to go on. Mendip decision record →

Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 5 Oct 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Statutory expiry
26 Mar 2026
Env. assessment
No

Sale prices: Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Freehold boundary: © Crown copyright and database rights 2026, HM Land Registry. Polygons © Crown copyright and database rights 2026 Ordnance Survey 100026316. Conditions of use