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Drewsteignton Playing Field, Drewsteignton

0105/19Full Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 15 May 2019

Council decision: Grant ConditionallyDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Installation of 10 m column with two LED lights to illuminate an area of land for the Devon Air Ambulance.

Received
5 February 2019
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
Dartmoor
Ward
West Devon
  1. Received5 Feb
  2. Validated5 Mar
  3. Consult.9 Apr
  4. Target30 Apr
  5. Decided15 May

Decided in 71 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Drewsteignton Playing Field, Drewsteignton. Dartmoor has handled 700 applications of this type. This one was decided in 99 days, 6 weeks longer than Dartmoor's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 162 applications across West Devon.

87% of full applications at Dartmoor were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Application type
Full Planning Permission
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Drewsteignton

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 March 2019
Consultation expiry
9 April 2019
Consultation end
9 April 2019
Target decision date
30 April 2019
Application expires
14 May 2022

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
24

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • National park: Dartmoor
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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 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

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© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

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