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Land at Bere Alston Sewage Treatment Works, Bere Alston, Devon, PL20 7BP

PRE/1725/2024Screening/ Scoping OpinionApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 13 September 2024

Council decision: Screening Opinion NOT EIA DevelopmentDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

EIA Screening Opinion Request for proposed works to upgrade an existing Sewage Treatment Works

Received
23 August 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Yelverton Rural
  1. Received23 Aug
  2. Validated23 Aug
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided13 Sep

Decided in 21 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is an outline application at Land at Bere Alston Sewage Treatment Works, Bere Alston, Devon, PL20 7BP. Devon has handled 18 applications of this type. This one was decided in 21 days, 6 weeks quicker than Devon's typical decision time. The site is in the Weir Quay conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 468 applications in total for the PL20 postcode area.

100% of outline 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
PL20 7BP
Application type
Screening/ Scoping Opinion
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Bere Ferrers
District
West Devon Borough Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 August 2024
Committee meeting
13 September 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address
AARDVARK EM LTD HIGHER FORD WIVELISCOMBE TAUNTON SOMERSET TA4 2RL

Additional information

Documents
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

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

Also checked, none recorded (18)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, 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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

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

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

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