Penstone, The Lippiatt, Cheddar, Somerset, BS27 3QT Data via plota.co.uk

17/26/00060 - Prior Approval Agri. to Flexible Use Pending

Proposal

Change of use of a working farm to allow it to be also used for Alternative Learning Provision for young people aged 8-25 years of age. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 27 Oct 2026, 03:03

Application progress

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Received

23 Sept 2026

Decision

Expected by 18 Nov 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision between 9 Nov 2026 and 24 Nov 2026, from Sedgemoor's recent changes of use.

The consultation period closed on 12 Oct 2026.

Documents

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Site constraints 9

Mendip Hills 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.

Public footpath about 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.

Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 2

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 ↗

Special area of conservation about 274 m away: North Somerset & Mendip Bats

Work nearby can need a habitats assessment.

Harm to a protected site is only accepted where there is no alternative and an overriding public interest.

Also on the record

SSSI about 274 m away: The Cheddar Complex SSSI; 1 listed building within 150 m of the postcode pin; Inside the Cheddar built-up area; 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

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 13 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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