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Watchfield Village Hall, Mark Road, Watchfield, Highbridge, TA9 4RD

12/26/00001Cert. of Lawfulness for Existing UseApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 12 February 2026

Council decision: Granted PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
Boundary © HM Land Registry, © Ordnance Survey · details

This information is subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 and is reproduced with the permission of HM Land Registry. The polygons (including the associated geometry, namely x, y co-ordinates) are subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 Ordnance Survey AC0000851063. Conditions of use.

Proposal

Certificate of Lawfulness for the existing excavation of foundation trenches for a new village hall and the pouring of blinding concrete in the base of the trenches. Refer to attached 'Setting Out Drawing for Foundations' plan showing location of trenches.

Submitted
26 January 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
Sedgemoor
  1. Received26 Jan
  2. Validated26 Jan
  3. Consult.
  4. Target12 Feb
  5. Decided12 Feb

Decided in 17 days (council typically 35)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Watchfield Village Hall, Mark Road, Watchfield, Highbridge, TA9 4RD. Sedgemoor has handled 184 applications of this type. This one was decided in 17 days, 3 weeks quicker than Sedgemoor's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 118 applications in total for the TA9 postcode area.

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

Postcode
TA9 4RD
Application type
Cert. of Lawfulness for Existing Use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Burnham Without

Planning application dates

Date validated
26 January 2026
Consultation start
9 February 2026
Target decision date
12 February 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Auster House 20 St Medard Road Wedmore BS28 4AY

Planning decision

Statutory period
17 days

Additional information

Documents
9

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 2: Medium probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site

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.

© 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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