Yes, and with less paperwork than most of Somerset demands. There are no conservation areas covering the village itself. The nearest ones are in neighbouring parishes. Listing is concentrated in a small number of older buildings rather than smeared across whole streets. For the average post-war semi or bungalow here, the planning constraint that stops people extending elsewhere simply is not present.
The area holds 71 listed buildings. None of them is grade one, 5 are grade two star, and the remaining 66 are grade two. Listing applies to the whole building inside and out, not just the elevation people photograph, so if you buy one of those 71 then almost any change worth making needs listed building consent as well as planning permission: windows, internal walls, roof coverings, and frequently the things you assumed were cosmetic. The upside of the split is that 71 buildings across a village and its surrounding parish leaves the overwhelming majority of homes here entirely unlisted, and those owners are governed by ordinary planning rules like everyone else.
There are also 3 scheduled monuments in the area. Scheduled monument consent is the strictest tier in the English heritage system, tighter than listing, and it bites on ground disturbance rather than on buildings. It matters if your garden happens to sit on or beside one, and it is irrelevant to nearly everybody else. Worth checking on the title plan rather than assuming.
The most useful evidence is what neighbours are actually getting on with. The planning register records 211 applications across the area between April 2024 and June 2026, of which 88 fall in the most recent twelve months. That is a village where people extend, convert, reroof and rearrange as a matter of routine. Nobody is filing that many applications into a system they expect to say no.
One listed building in the area sits on Historic England's Heritage at Risk register. That is a statement about the condition of a specific historic building, not a warning about the neighbourhood. Buildings on the register can attract grant support towards repair, and they attract considerably more scrutiny over how that repair is done. It has no bearing on the semi three streets away.
In practice, most homes here fall under permitted development for the standard moves: a rear extension within the size limits, a loft conversion, a garden building, solar panels. With no conservation area over the village, the permitted development rights that get stripped out in prettier postcodes stay intact. The exceptions are the listed buildings, anything near a scheduled monument, and flats, which never had permitted development rights to begin with. Confirm the specific address before you draw anything, because "the village is unconstrained" and "your house is unconstrained" are different claims.
Freedom to alter a home here is comfortably middle of the road: not the blank cheque of a modern estate, not the running battle of a heritage town centre. For most buyers the constraint that matters will be the plot and the budget rather than the planning department.