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The Mill (formerly Bigwood & Staple), Church Street, Bridgwater, Somerset

08/24/00053Application for non-material changesApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 16 April 2024

Council decision: Granted PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application for Non-Material Amendment to Planning Permission 08/21/00023 (Approval of the details of landscaping in connection with thee erection of 29 two bedroom town houses.) for an amendment to the soft and hard landscaping.

Submitted
20 March 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
Sedgemoor
  1. Received20 Mar
  2. Validated20 Mar
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided16 Apr

Decided in 27 days (council typically 35)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at The Mill (formerly Bigwood & Staple), Church Street, Bridgwater, Somerset. Sedgemoor has handled 184 applications of this type. This one was decided in 27 days, 8 days quicker than Sedgemoor's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address.

94% of amendment applications at Sedgemoor were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 5 weeks (median).

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Application details

Application type
Application for non-material changes
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bridgwater

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 March 2024
Consultation start
20 March 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Four Trees Old North Road North Muskham Newark NG23 6ET

Additional information

Documents
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)
  • Conservation area: Bridgwater St John'sPart of the site
  • Brownfield land register: The Mill (formerly Bigwood & Staple), Church Street, BridgwaterRegister site at or near this address

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, listed buildings, 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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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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.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

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Associated applications

  1. 2024
    20 Mar

    Application for Non-Material Amendment to Planning Permission 08/21/00023

    This applicationApprovedNon-material amendment08/24/00053
  2. 2021
    16 Mar

    Approval of the details of landscaping in connection with thee erection of 29 two bedroom town houses.

    ApprovedReserved mattersPart of08/21/00023

Source: Sedgemoor

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