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Airport Tavern Bristol Road Felton BS40 9XA

26/P/0144/LDEs191 Lawful use/development-existingApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 9 March 2026

Council decision: Approve (Lawful)Delegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Certificate of lawfulness for the use of land for parking and airport parking.

Received
23 January 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Council
North Somerset
Ward
Backwell
Agent
Stokes Morgan Planning Ltd
  1. Received23 Jan
  2. Validated23 Jan
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided9 Mar

Decided in 45 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Airport Tavern Bristol Road Felton BS40 9XA. North Somerset has handled 523 applications of this type. This one was decided in 45 days, 11 days quicker than North Somerset's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 94 applications across Backwell. We hold 2,267 applications in total for the BS40 postcode area.

89% of amendment 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
BS40 9XA
Application type
s191 Lawful use/development-existing
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Backwell

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 January 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Stokes Morgan Planning Ltd
Agent address
1 The Lodge Spillmans Court Stroud GL5 3RU

Additional information

Documents
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Green belt: North Somerset
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)

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