St Audries Bay Holiday Club, West Quantoxhead, Williton, Somerset, TA4 4DY Data via plota.co.uk

Pending 3/38/26/004

Council

West Somerset

Date received

22 Jul 2026

Date validated

30 Sept 2026

Postcode

TA4 4DY

Description

Change of use from seasonal holiday occupation to year round holiday occupation Data via plota.co.uk

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Last checked 8 Oct 2026, 06:54

Decision outlook

Plota predicts a decision between 25 Nov 2026 and 4 Dec 2026, from West Somerset's recent full applications.

Day 9 of the 56-day target. West Somerset usually decides full applications by day 62.

prediction

Day 953 days to the predicted decision (day 62)

46%decided within 8 weeks

90%approved

85decided in the last year

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

Site constraints 5

Quantock 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.

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. A site survey can differ.

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.

SSSI about 67 m away: Bridgwater Bay SSSI

Natural England may need consulting, depending on what is proposed.

Sites of special scientific interest are the best wildlife and geological sites in the country. Development likely to harm one is rarely permitted.

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

Registered park or garden about 230 m away: St Audries (House).

Not affected

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

Checked on 8 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.