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Chestnut Lodge, The Old Malthouse, Church Road, Enmore, Bridgwater, Somerset, TA5 2DU

27/24/00001Cert. of Lawfulness for Existing UseApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 12 February 2024

Council decision: Granted PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Certificate of Lawfulness for the existing residential use of the building and associated land without compliance with condition 3 of planning permission 27/00/00003

Submitted
5 February 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
Sedgemoor
  1. Received5 Feb
  2. Validated5 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target12 Feb
  5. Decided12 Feb

Decided in 7 days (council typically 35)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Chestnut Lodge, The Old Malthouse, Church Road, Enmore, Bridgwater, Somerset, TA5 2DU. Sedgemoor has handled 184 applications of this type. This one was decided in 7 days, 4 weeks quicker than Sedgemoor's typical decision time. The site is in 6 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 788 applications in total for the TA5 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
TA5 2DU
Application type
Cert. of Lawfulness for Existing Use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Enmore

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 February 2024
Consultation start
8 February 2024
Target decision date
12 February 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address
4 King Square Bridgwater TA6 3YF

Planning decision

Statutory period
7 days

Additional information

Documents
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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 (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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