3 BATCH PADDOCKS, Batch Road, Puriton, Bridgwater, Somerset, TA7 8GF Data via plota.co.uk

42/26/00002 - Full Planning Permission Refused

Proposal

Retrospective change of use of land to an adjoining existing Gypsy and Traveller site to provide one additional pitch comprising of 1No. mobile home, 1No. touring caravan, 1No. stable block, amenity space and associated parking. Data via plota.co.uk

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

Application progress

✓

Received

10 Aug 2026

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Refused

23 Oct 2026

Appeal

Not lodged

Refused on 23 Oct 2026 · Last checked 23 Oct 2026

Documents

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Site constraints 7

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 ↗

Priority habitat: Coastal and floodplain grazing marsh

A habitat of principal importance. It shapes the ecology work and the biodiversity net gain a scheme has to show.

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.

Habitat network: Network Expansion Zone

Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.

Also on the record

National infrastructure project about 1358 m away: Hinkley Point C Connection; Nature recovery project: Somerset Coast, Levels and Moors; Radon affected area, class 4.

Not affected

Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 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: Sedgemoor
Application type: Full Planning Permission
Postcode: TA7 8GF
Received: 10 Aug 2026
Validated: 10 Aug 2026
Parish: Puriton
Case officer: Show
Decision: Refuse Planning Permission
Decision date: 23 Oct 2026
Applicant: Show

How this decision compares

Decided in 74 days from validation, 47 days slower than Sedgemoor's median of 27 for agricultural works. Refused, as 13% of agricultural works here are.

This one74d

Council27d

UK46d

80%decided within 8 weeks

87%approved

85decided in the last year

Plota live figures for agricultural works decided by Sedgemoor in the last twelve months, from validation. Sedgemoor decision record →