first floor level to the rear of Frog Lane Barn, Frog Lane, Meare Green, Taunton, Stoke St Gregory Data via plota.co.uk

36/25/0017 - Full Planning Permission Refused

Proposal

Installation of full height glazing and erection of balcony at first floor level to the rear of Frog Lane Barn, Frog Lane, Meare Green, Taunton Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

✓
Received
25 Nov 2025
✗
Refused
13 Apr 2026
Appeal
Not lodged

Refused on 13 Apr 2026 · the Development Control Manager under delgated powers · Last checked 25 Oct 2026

Site constraints 8

Nutrient neutrality catchment: Parrett Catchment
New homes and overnight accommodation must show nutrient neutrality before approval.
Natural England advice: extra wastewater in these catchments harms protected habitats, so schemes must offset their nutrient load, usually through credits.
Agricultural land, grade 3b
Not 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) 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.
Public footpath about 24 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.
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
2 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin; Special protection area about 357 m away: Somerset Levels & Moors; SSSI about 357 m away: Curry and Hay Moors SSSI; Priority habitat about 30 m away: Traditional orchard.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 14 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 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

Application type
Full Planning Permission
Received
25 Nov 2025
Validated
25 Nov 2025
Parish
Stoke St Gregory
Case officer
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Target decision
20 Jan 2026
Decision
Refusal
Decision date
13 Apr 2026
Decision level
the Development Control Manager under delgated powers
Applicant
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Agent
K R ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

How this decision compares

Decided in 139 days from validation, 73 days slower than Taunton Deane's median of 66 for full applications. Refused, as 14% of full applications here are.

38%decided within 8 weeks
86%approved
317decided in the last year

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

Consultation & key dates

Consultation
28 Nov 2025
Comments by
19 Dec 2025