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Worminster Farm Worminster Lane North Wootton Shepton Mallet Somerset BA4 4AJ

2016/0851/PAAPrior App CoU Agricult. to ResidentialRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 1 June 2016

Council decision: Prior Approval RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Application for Prior Approval for a proposed change of use of agricultural building to a dwellinghouse

Received
31 March 2016
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
3
Council
Mendip
Ward
Croscombe And Pilton
Agent
Collier Reading Architects
  1. Received31 Mar
  2. Validated18 Apr
  3. Consult.10 May
  4. Target13 Jun
  5. Decided1 Jun

Decided in 44 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Worminster Farm Worminster Lane North Wootton Shepton Mallet Somerset BA4 4AJ. Mendip has handled 535 applications of this type. This one was decided in 62 days, 13 days longer than Mendip's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 469 applications in total for the BA4 postcode area.

77% of outline applications at Mendip were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
BA4 4AJ
Application type
Prior App CoU Agricult. to Residential
Scale / size
Small
Parish
St Cuthbert Out Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
18 April 2016
Consultation expiry
11 May 2016
Consultation start
19 April 2016
Consultation end
10 May 2016
Target decision date
13 June 2016
Permission expires
1 June 2019

Applicant and agent

Agent
Collier Reading Architects
Agent address
Coach House Studio 34A Chamberlain Street Wells Somerset BA5 2PJ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
20 April 2016
Site notice end
11 May 2016

Additional information

Documents
2
Constraints
1

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • 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 (22)

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, 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.

Source: Mendip

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