Rookery Farm Roemead Road Green Ore Wells Somerset BA5 3ES
Approved on 1 September 2020
Council decision: Approval with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Erection of 6 m high vertical axis wind turbine.
- Received
- 9 July 2020
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 3
- Council
- Mendip
- Ward
- Chewton Mendip And Ston Easton (Historic)
- ReceivedReceived9 Jul
- ValidatedValidated20 Jul
- Consult.Consultation17 Aug
- TargetTarget Date14 Sep
- DecidedDecided1 Sep
Decided in 43 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a new dwelling at Rookery Farm Roemead Road Green Ore Wells Somerset BA5 3ES. Mendip has handled 2,969 applications of this type. This one was decided in 54 days, 5 days longer than Mendip's typical decision time. There have been 3 other applications at this address. We hold 1,946 applications in total for the BA5 postcode area.
92% of full 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
- BA5 3ES
- Application type
- Full Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Chewton Mendip Parish Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 20 July 2020
- Consultation expiry
- 18 August 2020
- Consultation start
- 20 July 2020
- Consultation end
- 17 August 2020
- Last date for comments
- 18 August 2020
- Target decision date
- 14 September 2020
- Decision issued
- 14 September 2020
- Permission expires
- 14 September 2023
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 28 July 2020
- Site notice end
- 18 August 2020
Additional information
- Documents
- 11
- Constraints
- 6
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- National Landscape (AONB): Mendip Hills
- 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 (21)
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, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.
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Planning history at this site
3 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 202227 Sep
Application for prior notification of agricultural development for a proposed building. (Hay and Machinery…
ApprovedAgricultural Notification Proposed Build2022/1934/AGB - 201924 Apr
Proposed extension of existing outdoor manege.
Approval with ConditionsFull Application2019/1063/FUL - 201829 Oct
Prior notification of agricultural development - Steel Framed Agricultural Storage Building
ApprovedAgricultural Notification Proposed Build2018/2682/AGB
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