18 High Street Chard Somerset TA20 1QB
Approved on 11 May 2026
Council decision: Application Permitted
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Proposal
Application for Lawful Development Certificate for the existing use C3 Residential as 1no. two bedroom flat and 1no. four bedroom flat.
- Received
- 18 March 2026
- Council
- South Somerset
- Ward
- CHARD NORTH
- ReceivedReceived18 Mar
- ValidatedValidated7 Apr
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date2 Jun
- DecidedDecided11 May
Decided in 34 days (council typically 42)
About this application
This is an application to amend a permission at 18 High Street Chard Somerset TA20 1QB. South Somerset has handled 1,560 applications of this type. This one was decided in 54 days, 12 days longer than South Somerset's typical decision time. The site is in the Chard conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 44 applications across CHARD NORTH. We hold 1,867 applications in total for the TA20 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
- TA20 1QB
- Application type
- Certificate of Lawful Use or Development
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Chard Town
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 7 April 2026
- Target decision date
- 2 June 2026
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Chard
- Listed building: Grade II: Priory Green Residential Home and Attached RailingsOn this site · +3 more
- Nutrient neutrality catchment: Parrett 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 (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.
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Source: South Somerset
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