Witheywood Farm, Ashton Common, Steeple Ashton, Trowbridge, BA14 6DU

PL/2026/01485Prior notification: BuildingApproved

Outline / PiP

Approved on 12 May 2026

Council decision: Prior Approval Not Required

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

Proposal

Agricultural Building for the Storage of Animal Fodder and Machinery

Submitted: 4 March 2026
Council: Wiltshire Council
Ward: Melksham Without West & Rural ED

ReceivedSubmitted4 Mar
ValidatedValidated4 Mar
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date1 Apr
DecidedDecided12 May

Decided in 69 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application at Witheywood Farm, Ashton Common, Steeple Ashton, Trowbridge, BA14 6DU. Wiltshire has handled 971 applications of this type. This one was decided in 69 days, 3 weeks longer than Wiltshire's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded 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.

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: BA14 6DU
Application type: Prior notification: Building
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Steeple Ashton CP

Planning application dates

Date validated: 4 March 2026
Target decision date: 1 April 2026

Planning decision

Case officer: Selina (Nina) Parker-Miles
Statutory period: 28 days

Additional information

Documents: 5

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.

Source: Wiltshire

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