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Walnut Tree Cottage, Middle Street, East Harptree, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6AZ

25/01658/CLEUCert of Lawfulness (Existing) 191Approved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 9 September 2025

Council decision: LAWFULDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Continued use of annex ancillary to the main house as guest accomodation. (Certificate of Lawfulness for an Existing Use)

Received
28 April 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Mendip
  1. Received28 Apr
  2. Validated21 May
  3. Consult.12 Jun
  4. Target11 Sep
  5. Decided9 Sep

Decided in 111 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Walnut Tree Cottage , Middle Street, East Harptree, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6AZ. Bath has handled 480 applications of this type. This one was decided in 134 days, 12 weeks longer than Bath's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 33 applications across Mendip. We hold 2,265 applications in total for the BS40 postcode area.

98% of amendment applications at Bath and North East Somerset Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
BS40 6AZ
Application type
Cert of Lawfulness (Existing) 191
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
East Harptree

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 May 2025
Consultation expiry
12 June 2025
Consultation start
9 September 2025
Consultation end
12 June 2025
Neighbour consultation start
21 May 2025
Target decision date
11 September 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
113 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13970529
UPRN
100120053453
Documents
15

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • National Landscape (AONB): Mendip Hills
  • Brownfield land register: Land to the rear of Yearton House, Water Street, East Harptree,Register site at or near this address
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (20)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves and heritage coasts.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

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