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Outmarsh Farm, Outmarsh, Semington, Trowbridge, BA14 6JX

PL/2025/08409Full planning permissionRefused
Full

Refused on 27 April 2026

Council decision: Refuse1 condition1 reason for refusal

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

Proposal

Retrospective application for the siting of a static caravan for temporary residential use in connection with agricultural operations for a period of three years.

Submitted
14 January 2026
Ward
Melksham Without West & Rural ED
  1. Received14 Jan
  2. Validated14 Jan
  3. Consult.30 Mar
  4. Target23 Apr
  5. Decided27 Apr

Decided in 103 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Outmarsh Farm, Outmarsh, Semington, Trowbridge, BA14 6JX. Wiltshire has handled 9,967 applications of this type. This one was decided in 103 days, 8 weeks longer than Wiltshire's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 79 applications across Melksham Without West & Rural ED. We hold 2,267 applications in total for the BA14 postcode area.

93% of full applications at Wiltshire Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Why it was refused

  1. The application site is located within open countryside outside any defined settlement boundary as set out in the adopted Wiltshire Core Strategy 2015 where new residential development is strictly controlled. The applicant has failed to satisfactorily demonstrate that there is an essential functional and financial need for a full-time worker to reside on the site to support the submitted enterprise, as required by national and local planning policy. Furthermore, insufficient justification has been provided to demonstrate why the farming business could not be suitably managed and operated from the existing nearby dwelling at Outmarsh Farmhouse, which is considered to be suitably located to provide any animal husbandry or site security needs for the identified landholding. In the absence of clear evidence of exceptional circumstances to justify a new dwelling in the countryside, the siting of a static caravan for residential occupation represents inappropriate development which conflicts with Core Policies CP1, CP2 and CP48 of the Wiltshire Core Strategy 2015 and NPPF paragraphs 8, 11 and 84. The siting of the static caravan, together with associated domestic paraphernalia including outdoor seating and tables, introduces a visually intrusive form of development within the open countryside with an unacceptable domestication and encroachment in the rural landscape contrary to Core Policies CP51 and CP57 of the adopted Wiltshire Core Strategy. The defined red lined application site extent is also considered excessive and disproportionate in terms of establishing a reasonable curtilage associated to the static caravan.

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
BA14 6JX
Application type
Full planning permission
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Melksham Without CP

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 January 2026
Consultation expiry
30 March 2026
Consultation end
30 March 2026
Target decision date
23 April 2026

Planning decision

Case officer
Steven Vellance
Statutory period
99 days

Appeal history

6008970
Dismissed
Type: Planning AppealProcedure: Written RepresentationsDecision: 23 September 2026Dev Type: Change of useReason: refused

Additional information

Documents
9

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 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, 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: Wiltshire

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