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Higher Challonsleigh, Grazalders Farm to New Park Road, Lee Mill, PL7 5AY

DCC/3811/2015Full Planning ConsentApproved
Full

Approved on 27 January 2016

Council decision: Conditional ApprovalPlanning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Erection of concrete digestion tank and liquid waste holding tank, with associated ancillary works. Increase of site capacity to 20,000 tonnes per year

Received
9 October 2015
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Bickleigh & Wembury
  1. Received9 Oct
  2. Validated9 Oct
  3. Consult.19 Nov
  4. Target
  5. Decided27 Jan

Decided in 110 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Higher Challonsleigh, Grazalders Farm to New Park Road, Lee Mill, PL7 5AY. Devon has handled 183 applications of this type. This one was decided in 110 days, 7 weeks longer than Devon's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 1 application across Bickleigh & Wembury. We hold 368 applications in total for the PL7 postcode area.

100% of full applications at Devon County Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 9 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
PL7 5AY
Application type
Full Planning Consent
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Sparkwell
District
South Hams District Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
9 October 2015
Consultation expiry
19 November 2015
Consultation end
19 November 2015
Committee meeting
27 January 2016
Decision issued
29 January 2016

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Langage AD (UK) LLP Higher Challonsleigh Smithaleigh Plymouth PL7 5AY

Additional information

Documents
18

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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

Possibly incomplete for this council: conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers.

Also checked, none recorded (20)

flood storage 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 parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves and heritage coasts.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

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Associated applications

  1. 2023
    8 May

    Variation of condition 5 of planning permission DCC/3811/2015

    ApprovedVariation of conditions (s73)DCC/4352/2023
  2. 2015
    9 Oct

    Erection of concrete digestion tank and liquid waste holding tank, with associated ancillary works. Increase…

    This applicationApprovedFullDCC/3811/2015

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