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Underwood Quarry Wookey Hole Road Wells Somerset BA5 1AE

2025/2264/CLPCertificate of Proposed Use/DevelopmentRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 14 January 2026

Council decision: Development is not LawfulDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Certificate of Lawfulness of Proposed Use for the erection of modular building associated with existing industrial (B2) and warehouse/storage (B8) use of the site to provide ancillary employee facilities in accordance with GPDO Part 7, Class H.

Received
17 December 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
Mendip
Ward
Mendip West Division
Agent
LPC (Trull) Ltd
  1. Received17 Dec
  2. Validated22 Dec
  3. Consult.
  4. Target16 Feb
  5. Decided14 Jan

Decided in 23 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application at Underwood Quarry Wookey Hole Road Wells Somerset BA5 1AE. Mendip has handled 535 applications of this type. This one was decided in 28 days, 3 weeks quicker than Mendip's typical decision time. There have been 5 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 122 applications across Mendip West Division. We hold 1,945 applications in total for the BA5 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
BA5 1AE
Application type
Certificate of Proposed Use/Development
Scale / size
Small
Parish
St Cuthbert Out Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
22 December 2025
Target decision date
16 February 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
LPC (Trull) Ltd
Agent address
LPC (Trull) Ltd Trull Tetbury GL8 8SQ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14568809
Comments
0
Documents
6
Constraints
10

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Nutrient neutrality catchment: Brue CatchmentApplies to new homes and overnight accommodation
  • Ancient woodlandPart of the site · +1 more
  • 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, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, 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

5 other applications at this property, newest first.

  1. 2026
    24 Feb

    Application for a proposed lawful development certificate for Erection of modular ancillary building…

    ApprovedCertificate of Proposed Use/Development2026/0361/CLP
  2. 2025
    18 Jul

    Application for a proposed lawful development certificate for extension to existing industrial (Class B2) and…

    ApprovedCertificate of Proposed Use/Development2025/1344/CLP
  3. 2015
    9 Sep

    Minor amendments to the building granted planning permission under reference 2013/2121/FUL

    ApprovedNon-material amendment2015/2135/NMA
  4. 2014
    16 Apr

    Non-material minor amendment to amend drawing numbers on decision notice of planning permission 2013/2121

    Approval with ConditionsNon-material amendment2014/0822/NMA
  5. 2013
    26 Oct

    Erection of building to provide an indoor Radar testing facility to complement the existing outdoor Radar…

    Approval with ConditionsFull Application2013/2121/FUL

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