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North Devon Hospice Deer Park Deer Park Road Barnstaple Devon EX32 0HU

79407Prior Approval Class OAApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 12 March 2025

Council decision: Prior Approval Not RequiredDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Prior notification for the Installation of solar canopies over the car parking area

Received
31 October 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
NEWPORT
  1. Received31 Oct
  2. Validated23 Jan
  3. Consult.24 Feb
  4. Target
  5. Decided12 Mar

Decided in 48 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a solar installation at North Devon Hospice Deer Park Deer Park Road Barnstaple Devon EX32 0HU. North Devon has handled 401 applications of this type. This one was decided in 132 days, 11 weeks longer than North Devon's typical decision time. The site is in the Barnstaple - Rumsam conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 21 applications across NEWPORT. We hold 453 applications in total for the EX32 postcode area.

88% of outline 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
EX32 0HU
Application type
Prior Approval Class OA
Scale / size
Small
Parish
BARNSTAPLE

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 January 2025
Consultation expiry
24 February 2025
Consultation start
23 January 2025
Consultation end
24 February 2025
Application expires
20 March 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
4 Barnfield Crescent Exeter Devon EX1 1QT

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
15

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: Barnstaple - Rumsam
  • 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 (21)

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, 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.

Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2023
    14 Apr

    Siting of internally illuminated Totem sign

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