The Coach House , Midford Road, Midford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7BX Data via plota.co.uk

25/04242/FUL - Full Application Approved

Proposal

Demolition of existing two-storey dwelling, and replacement with a contemporary two-storey self-build dwelling. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
3 Nov 2025
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Validated
11 Nov 2025
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Approved
19 Mar 2026

Approved on 19 Mar 2026 · Last checked 7 Oct 2026

Planning committee

Decided by Bath Planning Committee on 18 Feb 2026.

Approved unanimously

As officers recommended.

  • Officers advised approval because the replacement dwelling was policy-compliant in the Green Belt, landscape, heritage, ecology and sustainability terms.
  • There were no public representations; members discussed the building’s heritage status, sustainability and proposed materials.
  • The committee voted 7–2 to permit the application, subject to a self-build undertaking and conditions.
Read how the committee decided The proposal, site context, officers’ assessment, consultation, committee debate, vote and decision. Includes the meeting recording, from 1:49:34 where this application was taken

Source: Plota analysis of Bath's committee minutes of 18 Feb 2026.

Documents

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Site constraints 6

1 listed building within 150 m of the postcode pin
Nearest: Midford Place, Grade II, about 2 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 ↗
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.
Read the government guidance ↗
Cotswolds 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 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) 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.
Radon affected area, class 5
An estimated 10 to 30% of homes reach the radon action level. Indicative for the 1 km square, which takes the highest class found in it; a radon test gives the answer for a building.
From the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency indicative atlas. Under building regulations, as the BRE guide BR 211 (2023) sets out, new buildings and extensions need basic radon protection from class 3 in England and Wales and from class 2 in Scotland, and full protection from class 5. The class at the site itself, from the detailed BGS map, decides which.
UKHSA radon ↗
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 7 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
Bath
Application type
Full Application
Postcode
BA2 7BX
Received
3 Nov 2025
Validated
11 Nov 2025
Ward
Bathavon South
Parish
South Stoke
Case officer
Show
Target decision
15 Apr 2026
Decision
PERMIT
Decision date
19 Mar 2026
Applicant
Show
Agent
Mitchell Eley Gould Architects

How this decision compares

Decided in 128 days from validation, 72 days slower than Bath's median of 56 for full applications. Approved, as 96% of full applications here are.

57%decided within 8 weeks
96%approved
970decided in the last year

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

Consultation & key dates

Planning Portal ref
PP-14424937

Historical activity at this location

4 nearby applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2020 Approved
Midford Place, Midford Road, Midford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7BX
Repositioning the kitchen on the ground floor, reconfiguring the master bedroom suite and…
20/04884/FUL
2020 Approved
Midford Place, Midford Road, Midford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7BX
Internal and external alterations to include repositioning the kitchen on the ground floo…
20/04885/LBA
2018 Approved
The Lodge Midford Place, Midford Road, Midford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7BX
Demolition of an existing single storey rear shed and erection of a part single, part two…
18/01673/FUL
2017 Refused
The Lodge Midford Place, Midford Road, Midford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7BX
Erection of a double storey rear extension and a wooden stable block/workshop
17/04060/FUL
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
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings