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Four Winds Farm Brinsea Batch Congresbury BS49 5JP

25/P/0990/CQAPrior App Part 3Q agriculture to resRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 1 July 2025

Council decision: Prior approval - required and refuseDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Prior approval for the conversion of agricultural buildings and area of land immediately surrounding the buildings to 1no. residential dwellinghouse (Use Class C3) with operational development including rendering of walls, insertion of new windows and doors, and installation of solar panels on roof

Received
15 May 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
2
Council
North Somerset
Ward
Congresbury And Puxton
Agent
Gibson Architecture Limited
  1. Received15 May
  2. Validated20 May
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided1 Jul

Decided in 42 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a new dwelling at Four Winds Farm Brinsea Batch Congresbury BS49 5JP. North Somerset has handled 683 applications of this type. This one was decided in 47 days, 9 days quicker than North Somerset's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 94 applications across Congresbury And Puxton. We hold 1,314 applications in total for the BS49 postcode area.

73% of outline applications at North Somerset were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
BS49 5JP
Application type
Prior App Part 3Q agriculture to res
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Congresbury

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 May 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Gibson Architecture Limited
Architect profile
GIBSON ARCHITECTURE LIMITED
Agent address
Office 07 Pure Offices 137 Pastures Avenue Weston-super-Mare BS22 7SB

Additional information

Documents
13

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 2: Medium probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (24)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, 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: North Somerset

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