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Former Cash Office, The Town Hall, 36-44 High Street, Bridgwater, Somerset, TA6 3BL

08/26/00048Listed Building Consent - alterationsApproved
Listed building consent

Approved on 3 September 2026

Council decision: Granted Permission

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

Proposal

Internal alterations to the town hall, to accommodate routes for electrical services and fixings for theatre equipment.

Submitted
27 July 2026
Council
Sedgemoor
  1. Received27 Jul
  2. Validated27 Jul
  3. Consult.
  4. Target3 Sep
  5. Decided3 Sep

Decided in 38 days (council typically 35)

About this application

This is a heritage application at Former Cash Office, The Town Hall, 36-44 High Street, Bridgwater, Somerset, TA6 3BL. Sedgemoor has handled 413 applications of this type. This one was decided in 38 days, 3 days longer than Sedgemoor's typical decision time. The site is in the Bridgwater Central Area and Dock conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications 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 3BL
Application type
Listed Building Consent - alterations
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bridgwater

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 July 2026
Consultation start
31 July 2026
Target decision date
3 September 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Connolly Wellingham Architects Spike Design 133 Cumberland Road Bristol BS1 6UX

Planning decision

Case officer
Shanta Parsons
Statutory period
38 days

Additional information

Documents
31

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Conservation area: Bridgwater Central Area and Dock
  • Listed building: Grade II: 46, High StreetOn or next to this site
  • 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, 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: Sedgemoor

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