Yes, and with unusually little to argue about. There are two listed buildings in the area and no conservation areas inside the village boundary. Nothing here is old enough to have accumulated a fan club. Neighbours have been putting in applications steadily for years. This is one of the few places in Somerset where the phrase "heritage constraints" barely applies to anybody.
The listing picture is about as light as it gets. Historic England's register carries two listed buildings in the area, both at grade two, with none at grade one and none at grade two star. Listing matters enormously if you own one of them, because it applies to the whole building inside and out, and changes that would be routine elsewhere need listed building consent on top of any planning permission. What matters for almost everyone else is that the odds of your house being one of those two are slim, and a village built largely in the modern era was never going to trouble the register.
The evidence that people do alter homes here is in the planning record rather than in theory. Somerset's planning register carries 211 applications across the area from April 2024 to June 2026, with 88 of those in the last twelve months. That is a steady stream of householders doing what householders do: extensions, garage conversions, loft rooms, driveways, the odd outbuilding. Nobody is filing that many applications in a village where the answer is always no.
In practice, that means the usual national rules do most of the work here. Many modest changes to a house fall under permitted development and need no application at all, though the limits are specific and the article four style restrictions that catch people out in older districts are not a feature of this village. Anything beyond those limits needs planning permission from the council, and a modern estate house may still carry conditions from its original consent restricting what can be done without a fresh application. The sensible order is to check the title and the original planning conditions for your specific house before you commission drawings, not after.
Freedom to alter a home is one of this village's genuine strengths. Almost nothing here is listed, there is no conservation area to negotiate with, and the planning register shows a village that has been quietly extending itself for years without much drama.