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Dunster Castle, Dunster, Minehead, TA24 6SL

6/10/25/022LBListed BuildingApproved
Listed building consent

Approved on 19 December 2025

Council decision: Approved with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)3 conditions

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Listed Building Consent for internal works within the basement boiler room of Dunster Castle, a Grade I listed building. The proposed works involve the removal of a redundant oil tank and a section of non-significant brick infill within an earlier brick arch, and the casting of a new concrete pad to facilitate future boiler installation.

Received
28 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
Exmoor
  1. Received28 Oct
  2. Validated30 Oct
  3. Consult.5 Dec
  4. Target25 Dec
  5. Decided19 Dec

Decided in 50 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a heritage application at DUNSTER CASTLE, DUNSTER, MINEHEAD, TA24 6SL. Exmoor has handled 119 applications of this type. This one was decided in 52 days, 4 days quicker than Exmoor's typical decision time. The site is in the Dunster conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 1,196 applications in total for the TA24 postcode area.

96% of heritage applications at Exmoor were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
TA24 6SL
Application type
Listed Building
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Dunster

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 October 2025
Consultation expiry
5 December 2025
Consultation end
5 December 2025
Target decision date
25 December 2025
Application expires
25 November 2025
Permission expires
18 December 2028

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

First advertised
14 November 2025
Site notice start
15 November 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14442900
UPRN
200003160782
Documents
9

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

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 (18)

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

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.

Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2023
    13 Nov

    Work to 16 No. trees in a conservation area as Tree Work 2023 Plan

    ApprovedWTCAWTCA 23/14

Source: Exmoor

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