Block Management in Shepton Mallet
No ground below radon class 4, and 12 per cent of town at class 6.
We would run a Shepton Mallet block, estate or leasehold building for its RMC, RTM company or freeholder, from purpose-built flats to conversions. Every square over the built-up area is radon class 5 or 6, and class 6 is the maximum band. All 189 listed buildings in the council's appraisal sit inside one conservation area, and the Sheppey warning names Garston Street and Leg Square.
What We Would Put First for a Block in Shepton Mallet
Measure Radon in Every Block
Five squares over Shepton Mallet are class 5 and five are class 6, with no low ground anywhere in the town. We would recommend radon measurement in all ground-floor and lower communal areas and keep the results on the compliance record.
ComplianceCheck the Sheppey Corridor on Site
The warning area names Garston Street, Leg Square, Lower Lane, Longbridge and Draycott Road, and January 2024 flooded 17 properties internally here. We would confirm the block's position on site rather than by postcode before insurance renewal.
InsuranceSecure Consents for Listed Fabric
All 189 listed buildings counted in the council's appraisal are inside the conservation area, including the Market Cross and the Charlton Viaduct. We would confirm consent requirements with Somerset Council before any external specification is issued.
ConsentsEstablish the Whitstone Rise Boundary
The 1966 Article 4 direction at Whitstone Rise controls gates, fences and walls, and no mapped boundary is published. For a block nearby we would establish the boundary with the council before boundary repairs are specified.
Maintenance and repairsManaging a Block in Shepton Mallet at a Glance
- Local authority
- Somerset Council
- Authority type
- Unitary
- Building control
- Somerset Building Control, the council's own service covering the four former district areas
- County
- Somerset
- Fire and rescue service
- Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service
- Water and sewerage
- Wessex Water
- From our Plymouth office
- About 90 miles in a straight line
- Setting
- Inland
What It Costs to Move a Block in Shepton Mallet to Us
Management is a fixed annual fee, quoted for the building and agreed before we start. We take no commission and no third-party incentives, so the fee is the whole of what we earn from the building. Taking a block on carries a one-off start-up fee, set by size:
| Block size | Fee |
|---|---|
| Start-up fee, up to 10 units | £420.00 |
| Start-up fee, up to 25 units | £540.00 |
| Start-up fee, 50 units and above | £660.00 |
Taken from our published Additional Services price list, PBM Form #01-27 rev.6, effective 23 June 2025. All fees quoted are inclusive of VAT. See the full price list and how a handover works.
Every Square over the Town Is Class 5 or 6
Radon potential is high across the whole town. The town centre returns class 5, a maximum radon potential of 10 to 30 per cent of homes at or above the action level, and radon measurement is advised. Of the ten one-kilometre squares covering the built-up area, five are class 5 and account for 88 per cent of the town by area. The other five are class 6, the maximum band, covering the remaining 12 per cent. Across the wider four kilometre box thirteen of the twenty five squares are class 6. No square anywhere near the town falls below class 4. Every block here should have radon measured in ground floor flats and lower communal areas, with results kept on the compliance record.
17.8 Per Cent of Town Households Live in Flats
The Shepton Mallet ward held 4,912 households at the 2021 Census with 779 in flats, 15.9 per cent. Of these, 549 were in purpose-built blocks, 104 in a converted or shared house, 79 in another converted building and 47 over commercial premises. The ward also takes in Croscombe. The town's own built-up area has 4,270 households and 760 flats, 17.8 per cent. That is well above the county average of 12.7 per cent, though still below the England figure of 22.2 per cent. The mix of purpose-built blocks and conversions means lease terms and repairing responsibilities vary from building to building, and should be checked before budgets are set.
The Sheppey Warning Names Streets in a Narrow Corridor
Fluvial on the River Sheppey, and confined to a narrow corridor. The Environment Agency warning area runs through the town but covers only 3.2 per cent of the built-up area, and the East Somerset Rivers alert covers 3.0 per cent. The warning area names Garston Street, Leg Square, Lower Lane, Longbridge and Draycott Road, alongside properties at Bowlish, Darshill, Croscombe and Dulcote. The Sheppey is classified as a main river from just upstream of the town, which is why the warning service begins where it does. The historic record is a long list of individual streets rather than one big event. Commercial Road flooded in November 2009, Charlton Road in July 2011, Lower Lane and West Shepton in July 2012, and Paul Street in November 2012. Frithfield Lane followed at the end of December 2013, and Cannards Grave Road and Back Lane at Darshill in January 2014. The January 2024 event flooded 29 properties internally across Shepton Mallet and Croscombe together, 17 of them here. A point in the town centre can fall outside the warning area by under 200 metres. A block's position should therefore be confirmed on site, not by postcode, before insurance is placed.
All 189 Appraisal-Listed Buildings Are in the Conservation Area
One conservation area, first designated by Somerset County Council in 1973 and revised in 1995, 2003 and 2007. The council's appraisal defines five character areas. Darshill, Bowlish and Charlton are inside the single designation rather than being separate areas of their own. So are the town centre with Commercial Road and the Anglo Trading Estate, the Sheppey valley including Hill Lane, Pike Lane, Cowl Street and the prison, and the Charlton Viaduct. The appraisal itself carries no printed publication date. A block in any of these character areas falls under conservation controls, which affect the specification of windows, roofs and external repairs.
The council's appraisal states that there are 189 listed buildings in Shepton Mallet, all 189 of them inside the conservation area. They represent over 6 per cent of the stock in the whole former Mendip district, and nine are listed at higher grades. Those nine are the Church of St Peter and St Paul at Grade I, and at Grade II* No. 8 Market Place, the former Anglo Brewery, Bowlish House, HM Prison and its perimeter wall, Park House, Old Bowlish House, the Charlton Viaduct and the Market Cross. Historic England's current data gives a higher figure of 223 entries with ten at Grade II*. The additions since the appraisal include the former treadwheel house at the prison, listed in March 2014. The town also has three scheduled monuments, among them part of the Romano-British linear village at Fosse Lane, and no registered park or garden. A block in a listed building needs listed building consent for works that affect its character, and that consent should be in place before the works are specified.
A 1966 Enclosure Control at Whitstone Rise
One Article 4 direction, made on 21 June 1966 and covering land at Whitstone Rise. It removes permitted development rights for gates, fences, walls or other means of enclosure above four feet where they abut a highway used by vehicular traffic. The limit is seven feet in any other case. It also covers their maintenance, improvement or alteration. It sits outside the historic core, so this is not a town-centre or conservation-area control. The council publishes no street list, plan or mapped boundary for it, only the phrase land at Whitstone Rise. For a block nearby, the boundary has to be established with the council before boundary walls or fences are repaired or replaced.
A Neighbourhood Plan Made in August 2025
Decided under the Mendip Local Plan: Part I adopted 15 December 2014, Part II adopted 20 December 2021, and the Part II limited update adopted 25 September 2025. The update's replacement housing allocations are at Frome, Glastonbury, Street, Wells, Midsomer Norton and Westfield and in villages, with none in Shepton Mallet. The Shepton Mallet Neighbourhood Plan 2014 to 2034 was made on 13 August 2025. At its referendum on 17 July 2025, 1,253 votes were cast and 1,065 were in favour, 84 per cent. The neighbourhood area is the whole parish, designated by Mendip District Council's cabinet on 10 February 2014, and the examination was carried out by Deborah McCann. Older site appraisals will not reflect the plan, so consents for alterations to a block should be checked against it.
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Shepton Mallet Questions
Which Streets in Shepton Mallet Have Flooded Before?
The record is a list of individual streets rather than one big event. Commercial Road flooded in November 2009, Charlton Road in July 2011, Lower Lane and West Shepton in July 2012, and Paul Street in November 2012. Frithfield Lane followed at the end of December 2013, and Cannards Grave Road and Back Lane at Darshill in January 2014. The January 2024 event flooded 17 properties internally here.
Is Shepton Mallet Getting New Housing Allocations?
Not in the latest Mendip Local Plan update. The Part II limited update adopted 25 September 2025 places replacement housing allocations at Frome, Glastonbury, Street, Wells, Midsomer Norton, Westfield and in villages, with none in Shepton Mallet. The Shepton Mallet Neighbourhood Plan 2014 to 2034 was made on 13 August 2025, so older site appraisals will not reflect it.
Are Darshill and Bowlish Separate Conservation Areas?
No. Darshill, Bowlish and Charlton sit inside Shepton Mallet's single conservation area, first designated in 1973 and revised in 1995, 2003 and 2007. The appraisal's five character areas also take in the town centre with Commercial Road and the Anglo Trading Estate, the Sheppey valley including Cowl Street and the prison, and the Charlton Viaduct.
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