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Garden Cottage Church Street Martock Somerset TA12 6JL

23/02359/COLCertificate of Lawful Use or DevelopmentApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 10 October 2023

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Certificate of Lawfulness for the Proposed stationing of a shepherd hut on land within the garden of Garden Cottage to provide ancillary domestic accommodation

Received
18 September 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
South Somerset
Ward
MARTOCK
Agent
Clive Miller Planning
  1. Received18 Sep
  2. Validated25 Sep
  3. Consult.
  4. Target20 Nov
  5. Decided10 Oct

Decided in 15 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Garden Cottage Church Street Martock Somerset TA12 6JL. South Somerset has handled 1,560 applications of this type. This one was decided in 22 days, 3 weeks quicker than South Somerset's typical decision time. The site is in the Martock and Bower Hinton conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications 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 6JL
Application type
Certificate of Lawful Use or Development
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Martock

Planning application dates

Date validated
25 September 2023
Target decision date
20 November 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent
Clive Miller Planning
Agent address
C/o Clive Miller Planning Ltd Sanderley Studio Kennel Lane Langport TA10 9SB

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12461308
Comments
0
Documents
11

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Conservation area: Martock and Bower Hinton
  • Listed building: Grade II: Pattenden and Garden CottageOn this site · +4 more
  • 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 (19)

flood storage areas, 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

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© 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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