Cowley Bridge Junction Cowley Bridge Road Exeter EX5 5DZ

18/0189/PDLPrior Approval - Local Acts or OrdersApproved

Outline / PiP

Approved on 7 February 2018

Council decision: Prior Approval Required and GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Prior approval of works to an existing culvert and construction of a new culvert under the Exeter to Paddington rail line north of Cowley Bridge and associated works for the purpose of flood allevation.

Received: 26 January 2018
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Exeter City Council
Ward: St Davids

ReceivedReceived26 Jan
ValidatedValidated26 Jan
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date23 Mar
DecidedDecided7 Feb

Decided in 12 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application at Cowley Bridge Junction Cowley Bridge Road Exeter EX5 5DZ. Exeter has handled 454 applications of this type. This one was decided in 12 days, 5 weeks quicker than Exeter's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 89 applications across St Davids. We hold 1,242 applications in total for the EX5 postcode area.

88% of outline applications at Exeter City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode: EX5 5DZ
Application type: Prior Approval - Local Acts or Orders
Scale / size: Small

Planning application dates

Date validated: 26 January 2018
Target decision date: 23 March 2018

Planning decision

Statutory period: 56 days

Additional information

Comments: 0
Documents: 1

Site constraints

Checking the site

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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: tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, 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.

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Source: Exeter

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