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West Brook, Whitford Road, Kilmington, AXMINSTER, EX13 7RG

PRE/1770/2025Screening/ Scoping OpinionApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 8 October 2025

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

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Provision of additional storm storage and a new side stream process arrangement.

Received
18 September 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Whimple & Blackdown
  1. Received18 Sep
  2. Validated18 Sep
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided8 Oct

Decided in 20 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is an outline application at West Brook, Whitford Road, Kilmington, AXMINSTER, EX13 7RG. Devon has handled 18 applications of this type. This one was decided in 20 days, 6 weeks quicker than Devon's typical decision time. The site is in the Kilmington conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 1 application across Whimple & Blackdown. We hold 959 applications in total for the EX13 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
EX13 7RG
Application type
Screening/ Scoping Opinion
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Kilmington
District
East Devon District Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
18 September 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Aardvark EM Limited Higher Ford Wiveliscombe Somerset TA4 2RL

Additional information

Documents
9

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Conservation area: KilmingtonPart of the site
  • Nutrient neutrality catchment: River Axe SACApplies to new homes and overnight accommodation

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

Also checked, none recorded (19)

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, 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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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© 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.

Source: Devon

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