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Land West Of Escot Park Estate Talaton

25/0011/EIAEIA Screening OpinionWithdrawn
Outline / PiP

Withdrawn on 1 December 2025

Council decision: Application Closed

Proposal

Screening opinion for a proposed ground mounted solar farm and associated infrastructure with permission being required for 40 years

Received
3 October 2025
Public comments
4
Ward
Tale Vale
  1. Received3 Oct
  2. Validated3 Oct
  3. Consult.29 Oct
  4. Target
  5. Decided1 Dec

Decided in 59 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for a solar installation at Land West Of Escot Park Estate Talaton. East Devon has handled 467 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 59 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 30 applications across Tale Vale.

77% of outline 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

Application type
EIA Screening Opinion
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Talaton

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 October 2025
Last date for comments
29 October 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Simon Chapman Hodge House 114-116 St Mary Street Cardiff CF10 1DY

Additional information

Documents
5

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)

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 (22)

flood storage areas, conservation 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, 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

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.

Source: East Devon

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