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Land At Burton, Mere, Warminster, Wiltshire, BA12 6BR

PL/2025/09388Prior approval Part 3 Class Q: Agricultural buildings to dwellinghousesApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 20 January 2026

Council decision: Prior Approval Granted with Conditions4 conditions

Proposal

Application for prior approval under Class Q of the GPDO 2015 (as amended), for change of use of agricultural building into 3 no. dwellinghouses (Class C3) with associated operational development.

Submitted
28 November 2025
Ward
Mere ED
  1. Received28 Nov
  2. Validated28 Nov
  3. Consult.13 Jan
  4. Target23 Jan
  5. Decided20 Jan

Decided in 53 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at LAND AT BURTON, MERE, WARMINSTER, WILTSHIRE, BA12 6BR. Wiltshire has handled 971 applications of this type. This one was decided in 53 days, 4 days longer than Wiltshire's typical decision time. The site is in 2 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 67 applications across Mere ED. We hold 1,459 applications in total for the BA12 postcode area.

80% of outline applications at Wiltshire Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
BA12 6BR
Application type
Prior approval Part 3 Class Q: Agricultural buildings to dwellinghouses
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Mere CP

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 November 2025
Consultation expiry
13 January 2026
Consultation end
13 January 2026
Target decision date
23 January 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
12

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.

Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2026
    7 Apr

    Convert barn to single dwelling and workshop.

    ApprovedFull planning permissionPL/2026/01781

Source: Wiltshire

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