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Land to the North of, Orchard Lea, Smallways Lane, Chilton Polden, Bridgwater, TA7 9EG

19/14/00011Cert. of Lawfulness for Existing UseWithdrawn
Lawful development certificate

Withdrawn on 10 October 2014

Council decision: Withdrawn (after registration)Delegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Certificate of Lawfulness application for the use of land to store building materials

Submitted
8 September 2014
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
Sedgemoor
  1. Received8 Sep
  2. Validated8 Sep
  3. Consult.
  4. Target10 Oct
  5. Decided10 Oct

Decided in 32 days (council typically 35)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Land to the North of, Orchard Lea, Smallways Lane, Chilton Polden, Bridgwater, TA7 9EG. Sedgemoor has handled 184 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 32 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. The site is in 2 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 1,073 applications in total for the TA7 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
TA7 9EG
Application type
Cert. of Lawfulness for Existing Use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Chilton Polden

Planning application dates

Date validated
8 September 2014
Consultation start
15 September 2014
Target decision date
10 October 2014

Applicant and agent

Agent address
56 High Street Bridgwater Somerset TA6 3BN

Planning decision

Statutory period
32 days

Additional information

Documents
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Nutrient neutrality catchment: Brue CatchmentApplies to new homes and overnight accommodation
  • 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 (21)

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, 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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