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Land adjacent No 1-4 Firs Cottages Lottisham BA6 8PE

SCC/4131/2025OutlineApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 16 September 2026

Council decision: Application Approved8 conditions

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

Proposal

Replacement of an existing below ground septic-tank, currently used by several residential properties (No 1-4 Firs Cottages, Lottisham), with a small water recycling centre (WRC) package plant. Permission is sought for the change of land use of the site to operational land ("sewerage undertakings"), the installation of WRC plant within a small compound, a new access/ egress point to the adjacent public highway and associated landscaping (the ‘proposed development’).

Submitted
17 June 2025
Council
Somerset
  1. Received17 Jun
  2. Validated17 Jun
  3. Consult.25 Jul
  4. Target
  5. Decided16 Sep

Decided in 456 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Land adjacent No 1-4 Firs Cottages Lottisham BA6 8PE. Somerset has handled 15 applications of this type. This one was decided in 456 days, 57 weeks longer than Somerset's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 218 applications in total for the BA6 postcode area.

96% of all applications at Somerset were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
BA6 8PE
Application type
Outline
Scale / size
Small
District
Mendip District Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 June 2025
Consultation expiry
25 July 2025
Consultation end
25 July 2025

Additional information

Documents
48

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.

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