85 Merlin Park Portishead BS20 8RL
Approved on 14 April 2026
Council decision: Approve (Lawful)
Proposal
Certificate of lawful development for the proposed removal of the centre pillar on the existing garage and the installation of a new lintel and a new larger electric garage door to replace the two existing doors together with a new single side door.
- Received
- 4 February 2026
- Public comments
- 1
- Council
- North Somerset
- Ward
- Portishead West
- ReceivedReceived4 Feb
- ValidatedValidated16 Feb
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date13 Apr
- DecidedDecided14 Apr
Decided in 57 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an outline application for a garage at 85 Merlin Park Portishead BS20 8RL. North Somerset has handled 683 applications of this type. This one was decided in 69 days, 13 days longer than North Somerset's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 80 applications across Portishead West. We hold 1,577 applications in total for the BS20 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
- BS20 8RL
- Application type
- s192 Lawful use/development-proposed
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Portishead
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 16 February 2026
- Target decision date
- 13 April 2026
Additional information
- Documents
- 8
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Flood zone 1: Low 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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