Units 3b 4 And 5, Express Park, Bristol Road, Bridgwater, Somerset, TA6 4RN Data via plota.co.uk

09/26/00013 - Prior Approval for Solar PV - Non Dom Pending

Proposal

Application to determine if prior approval is required for a proposed installation of other Solar Photovoltaics (PV) equipment on the roofs of non-domestic buildings. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 13 Sept 2026, 05:43

Application progress

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Received

6 Aug 2026

Decision

Expected by 1 Oct 2026

This application is under consideration - no decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision around 14 Sept 2026, from recent prior approvals across the UK. The consultation period closed on 10 Sept 2026.

Documents

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Site constraints 4

Flood zone 2, rivers and sea

Medium chance: between a 1 in 100 and 1 in 1,000 annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 to 1 in 1,000 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.

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Agricultural land, grade 3b, surveyed

Not best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). From a field survey (Bristol).

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.

Survey report ↗

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

Inside the Bridgwater built-up area.

Not affected

Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 11 September 2026. 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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6 Aug 2026Pending

Units 3b 4 And 5, Express Park, Bristol Road, Bridgwater, Somerset, TA6 4RN

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Important details

Council: Sedgemoor
Application type: Prior Approval for Solar PV - Non Dom
Postcode: TA6 4RN
Received: 6 Aug 2026
Validated: 6 Aug 2026
Parish: Bridgwater Without
Case officer: Show
Applicant: Show
Agent: GB NRG Developments, Bonneville House

Decision outlook

Day 39, past Sedgemoor's usual 37 days for prior approvals. 97% are decided within thirteen weeks, so most likely by 5 Nov 2026.

predicted

Day 3917 days to the 56-day target

89%decided within 8 weeks

72%approved

14,766decided in the last year

Plota live figures for prior approvals decided across the UK in the last twelve months, from validation; too few recent prior approvals in Sedgemoor to go on. Sedgemoor decision record →