1 Edward Street, Bridgwater, Somerset, TA6 5ET

08/26/00015Cert. of Lawfulness for Proposed Use/DevApproved

Outline / PiP

Approved on 27 February 2026

Council decision: Granted PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Certificate of lawfulness for the proposed conversion of a C3 dwellinghouse into a 6 bed (6 bedsits) C4 house of multiple occupancy (HMO) with internal alterations & loft conversion

Submitted: 9 February 2026
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Sedgemoor

ReceivedSubmitted9 Feb
ValidatedValidated9 Feb
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date27 Feb
DecidedDecided27 Feb

Decided in 18 days (council typically 35)

About this application

This is an outline application for a loft conversion at 1 Edward Street, Bridgwater, Somerset, TA6 5ET. Sedgemoor has handled 374 applications of this type. This one was decided in 18 days, 2 weeks quicker than Sedgemoor's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,334 applications in total for the TA6 postcode area.

94% of outline 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 5ET
Application type: Cert. of Lawfulness for Proposed Use/Dev
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Bridgwater

Planning application dates

Date validated: 9 February 2026
Consultation start: 23 February 2026
Target decision date: 27 February 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address: 75 Stanhorn Grove Felpham Bognor Regis PO22 8FP

Planning decision

Statutory period: 18 days

Additional information

Documents: 13

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 3: High 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 (22)

flood storage areas, conservation 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, 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.

Source: Sedgemoor

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