Stone Cutters Barn, Butterlake, Marldon, Paignton, TQ3 1SN

DCC/4348/2023Full Planning ConsentApproved

Full

Approved on 6 September 2023

Council decision: Conditional ApprovalPlanning committee

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

The proposal is the establishment of a community composting scheme to provide a place where local residents can bring their organic garden materials to be processed on site by volunteers into good quality soil improver, and compost

Received: 26 April 2023
Decision level: Planning committee
Council: Devon County Council
Ward: Dartmouth & Marldon

ReceivedReceived26 Apr
ValidatedValidated1 Jun
Consult.Consultation29 Jun
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided6 Sep

Decided in 97 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Stone Cutters Barn, Butterlake, Marldon, Paignton, TQ3 1SN. Devon has handled 183 applications of this type. This one was decided in 133 days, 10 weeks longer than Devon's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 4 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,005 applications in total for the TQ3 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).

Based on decided applications received in the last 3 years.See what's approved near your address

Application details

Postcode: TQ3 1SN
Application type: Full Planning Consent
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Marldon
District: South Hams District Council

Planning application dates

Date validated: 1 June 2023
Consultation expiry: 29 June 2023
Consultation end: 29 June 2023
Committee meeting: 6 September 2023
Decision issued: 7 September 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address: Marldon Community Composting 1 Church Cottages Marldon PAIGNTON TQ31SL

Additional information

Documents: 23

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

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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Source: Devon

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