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Quarryside Upper Claypark Mortehoe Woolacombe Devon EX34 7EA

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Approved on 13 December 2023

Delegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Retrospective Installation for ground mounted solar panels (amended description)

Received
26 October 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
MORTEHOE
  1. Received26 Oct
  2. Validated26 Oct
  3. Consult.29 Nov
  4. Target
  5. Decided13 Dec

Decided in 48 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a solar installation at Quarryside Upper Claypark Mortehoe Woolacombe Devon EX34 7EA. North Devon has handled 2,161 applications of this type. This one was decided in 48 days, 8 days quicker than North Devon's typical decision time. The site is in the Woolacombe conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 39 applications across MORTEHOE. We hold 583 applications in total for the EX34 postcode area.

96% of full applications at North Devon District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
EX34 7EA
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
MORTEHOE

Planning application dates

Date validated
26 October 2023
Consultation expiry
29 November 2023
Consultation start
31 October 2023
Consultation end
29 November 2023
Application expires
21 December 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address
6 TULY STREET BARNSTAPLE DEVON EX31 1DH

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
29 November 2023

Additional information

Documents
16

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: Woolacombe
  • National Landscape (AONB): North Devon
  • Heritage coast: North Devon
  • 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 (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, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves 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: North Devon

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