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Recreation Ground Water Street Martock Somerset TA12 6AF

23/01202/COUChange of UseApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 6 September 2023

Council decision: Application Permitted with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Change of use from a function room to a café and function room

Received
3 May 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
South Somerset
Ward
MARTOCK
  1. Received3 May
  2. Validated18 Jul
  3. Consult.
  4. Target12 Sep
  5. Decided6 Sep

Decided in 50 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Recreation Ground Water Street Martock Somerset TA12 6AF. South Somerset has handled 1,560 applications of this type. This one was decided in 126 days, 12 weeks longer than South Somerset's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 70 applications across MARTOCK. We hold 685 applications in total for the TA12 postcode area.

95% of amendment applications at South Somerset were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 6 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
TA12 6AF
Application type
Change of Use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Martock

Planning application dates

Date validated
18 July 2023
Target decision date
12 September 2023

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
0

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Flood zone 2: Medium probability (rivers and sea)
  • Nutrient neutrality catchment: Parrett CatchmentApplies to new homes and overnight accommodation

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: South Somerset

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