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Orchard Cottage Higher Watchcombe Farm Shute Axminster EX13 7QN

16/2928/VARVariation of ConditionApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 7 February 2017

Council decision: Approval with conditionsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Removal of holiday occupation condition (condition 6) on application 85/P1906 to allow unrestricted residential occupation of Orchard Cottage and retention of condition relation to Garden Cottage

Received
8 December 2016
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
3
Ward
Coly Valley
  1. Received8 Dec
  2. Validated8 Dec
  3. Consult.10 Jan
  4. Target
  5. Decided7 Feb

Decided in 61 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at Orchard Cottage Higher Watchcombe Farm Shute Axminster EX13 7QN. East Devon has handled 551 applications of this type. This one was decided in 61 days, 12 days longer than East Devon's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 53 applications across Coly Valley. We hold 959 applications in total for the EX13 postcode area.

99% of conditions applications at East Devon District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
EX13 7QN
Application type
Variation of Condition
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Colyton

Planning application dates

Date validated
8 December 2016
Consultation start
14 December 2016
Neighbour consultation start
14 December 2016
Last date for comments
10 January 2017

Applicant and agent

Agent
Symonds & Sampson
Agent address
Agriculture House Market Place Sturminster Newton DT101AR United Kingdom

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-05678599
Documents
5

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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 (20)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, 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, 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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© 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.

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