Land off Lower Bilbrook Lane Bilbrook Somerset TA24 6HE Data via plota.co.uk

SCC/4167/2026 Out to Consultation/ Decision Pending

Proposal

Ground level cellpave access along existing track to allow improved operational access to pumping station. See plan ref: -YTLC-XX-XX-D-C-7101 Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 28 Oct 2026, 11:03

Application progress

✓

Received

23 Sept 2026

Decision

Expected by 18 Nov 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision around 15 Nov 2026, from Somerset's recent full applications.

Documents 4

Application forms 1

PDF Application Form- redacted 237kb Document · 2610-20-26 View ↗

Site constraints 5

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 ↗

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 2. 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.

1 listed building within 150 m of the postcode pin

Nearest: Bilbrook Lodge, Grade II, about 38 m from the postcode pin

The site itself is not listed. Listed building consent is needed for work that affects the special interest of a listed building, inside or out, on top of planning permission. Setting can be a consideration for buildings nearby; there is no fixed radius.

Historic England ↗

Also on the record

Radon affected area, class 4; Flood defence about 27 m from the postcode pin (natural high ground, designed for a 1 in 2 year flood).

Not affected

Not green belt · 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 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: Somerset
Postcode: TA24 6HE
Validated: 23 Sept 2026
Applicant: Show
Agent: Charlotte Carter

Decision outlook

Day 36 of the 56-day target. Somerset usually decides full applications by day 53.

prediction

Day 3620 days to the 56-day target

54%decided within 8 weeks

91%approved

1,039decided in the last year

Plota live figures for full applications decided by Somerset in the last twelve months, from validation. Somerset decision record →

Somerset

Planning Authority Score

6.1/10

Average

#100 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Householder decisions

Somerset is faster than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #88 out of 296. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (94%) than the national average (90%).

Faster than most councils

for householder decisions

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Somerset decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

88%

Overall approval rate

Above avg (87%) #161 of 296

94%

Householder approved

Above avg (90%) #117 of 296

74%

Decided in 8 weeks

Above avg (63%) #88 of 296

39%

Extended time limit

Below avg (41%) #143 of 296

78%

Minor dwellings approved

699 decided (1-9 homes)

92%

Major dwellings approved

77 decided (10+ homes)

89%

Change of use approved

158 decided

3,740

Total decisions

438 refused in the year to March 2026