Walpole Landfill Site Bristol Road Walpole Bridgwater TA6 4TF Data via plota.co.uk

1/41/04/030/conds5&20 Out to Consultation/ Decision Pending

Proposal

Proposed revision to final landform by reducing the basal 'footprint' area and raising the final restoration levels including improvements at Pawlett Hams of permitted landfill extension Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

✓
Received
12 Oct 2026
Decision
Expected by 7 Dec 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision around 4 Dec 2026, from Somerset's recent full applications.

Comments are open until 5 Nov 2026

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Site constraints 8

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 ↗
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
Nature recovery project: Somerset Coast, Levels and Moors; Radon affected area, class 4; National infrastructure project about 1723 m away: Hinkley Point C Connection; Inside the Walpole built-up area; Priority habitat about 49 m away: Coastal and floodplain grazing marsh; Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) had this area as grade 3, but it predates the buildings here and the current map does not class it as farmland.
Not affected
Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 16 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
Somerset
Postcode
TA6 4TF
Received
12 Oct 2026
Validated
12 Oct 2026
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Decision outlook

Day 16 of the 56-day target. Somerset usually decides full applications by day 53.

Day 1640 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 →

Consultation & key dates

Comments by
5 Nov 2026
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