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The Court House Office, The Court House, Northgate, Bridgwater, Somerset, TA6 3YL

08/20/00067Listed Building Consent - alterationsApproved
Listed building consent

Approved on 17 June 2020

Council decision: Granted PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Works to doors accessing former public gallery to include fixing open of existing doors in situ and construction of an infill panel to provide 60 minute fire resistance with a 60 minute rated fire door.

Submitted
5 May 2020
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
Sedgemoor
  1. Received5 May
  2. Validated5 May
  3. Consult.
  4. Target17 Jun
  5. Decided17 Jun

Decided in 43 days (council typically 35)

About this application

This is a heritage application at The Court House Office, The Court House, Northgate, Bridgwater, Somerset, TA6 3YL. Sedgemoor has handled 413 applications of this type. This one was decided in 43 days, 8 days longer than Sedgemoor's typical decision time. The site is in 4 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,334 applications in total for the TA6 postcode area.

96% of heritage applications at Sedgemoor were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 5 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
TA6 3YL
Application type
Listed Building Consent - alterations
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bridgwater

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 May 2020
Consultation start
15 May 2020
Target decision date
17 June 2020

Applicant and agent

Agent address
31 The Beeches Warminster BA12 8LD

Planning decision

Statutory period
43 days

Additional information

Documents
9

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Listed building: Grade II: CourthouseOn this site
  • Brownfield land register: Bridgwater Magistrates Court, The Court House, Northgate, Bridgwater, TA6 3EURegister site at or near this address
  • 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, 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 and heritage coasts.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

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© 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.

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Source: Sedgemoor

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