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Thatchers Cider Company Ltd Myrtle Farm Station Road Sandford Winscombe BS25 5RA

26/P/0301/EA1Request for formal screening opinionApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 11 March 2026

Council decision: EIA not requiredDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Screening Opinion request to determine as to whether proposed development is EIA development. Works proposed; erection of a new warehousing facility known as the John Thatcher Cider Barn. External works to include; internal road realignment, modified access onto Nye Road, creation of a distribution yard, vehicular parking, external lighting and landscaping works THIS IS NOT A PLANNING APPLICATION

Received
6 February 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
North Somerset
Ward
Banwell And Winscombe
Agent
Forward Surveying & Design Ltd
  1. Received6 Feb
  2. Validated6 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided11 Mar

Decided in 33 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Thatchers Cider Company Ltd Myrtle Farm Station Road Sandford Winscombe BS25 5RA. North Somerset has handled 683 applications of this type. This one was decided in 33 days, 3 weeks quicker than North Somerset's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 137 applications across Banwell And Winscombe. We hold 1,139 applications in total for the BS25 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
BS25 5RA
Application type
Request for formal screening opinion
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Winscombe And Sandford

Planning application dates

Date validated
6 February 2026
Decision issued
12 March 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Forward Surveying & Design Ltd
Agent address
6 Circuit Close Bristol BS14 9DS

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
10

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 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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