Culverhayes Farm, Culverhays Lane, Bicknoller, TA4 4EX
Approved on 30 April 2025
Council decision: Prior approval not requiredDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Application for prior notification for the erection of a general purpose agricultural building
- Received
- 2 April 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- West Somerset
- Ward
- Dunster
- ReceivedReceived2 Apr
- ValidatedValidated2 Apr
- Consult.Consultation30 Apr
- TargetTarget Date30 Apr
- DecidedDecided30 Apr
Decided in 28 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an outline application at Culverhayes Farm, Culverhays Lane, Bicknoller, TA4 4EX. West Somerset has handled 125 applications of this type. This one was decided in 28 days, 4 weeks quicker than West Somerset's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 60 applications across Dunster. We hold 629 applications in total for the TA4 postcode area.
81% of outline applications at West Somerset were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- TA4 4EX
- Application type
- Prior Approval (Agriculture/Forestry)
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Bicknoller
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 2 April 2025
- Last date for comments
- 30 April 2025
- Target decision date
- 30 April 2025
Applicant and agent
- Applicant
- Private applicant
- Agent
- Greenslade Taylor Hunt
- Agent address
- Sedgemoor Auction Centre, North Petherton, Bridgwater, Somerset, TA6 6DF
Planning decision
- Case officer
- Denise Todd
- Statutory period
- 28 days
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- 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: West Somerset
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Consultants on this application
- Greenslade Taylor Hunt · Agent for this application
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