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9 Europa Park Woolacombe Station Road Woolacombe Devon EX34 7AN

80203Change of UseRefused
Discharge / amendments

Refused on 3 July 2025

Delegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Retrospective change of use from holiday to residential use

Received
14 April 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
MORTEHOE
  1. Received14 Apr
  2. Validated14 Apr
  3. Consult.17 Jun
  4. Target
  5. Decided3 Jul

Decided in 80 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 9 Europa Park Woolacombe Station Road Woolacombe Devon EX34 7AN. North Devon has handled 257 applications of this type. This one was decided in 80 days, 3 weeks longer than North Devon's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded 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.

97% of amendment 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 7AN
Application type
Change of Use
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
MORTEHOE

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 April 2025
Consultation expiry
17 June 2025
Consultation start
15 May 2025
Consultation end
17 June 2025
Application expires
4 July 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Victoria Street Barnstaple Devon EX32 9HT

Planning decision

Statutory period
81 days

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
5 June 2025

Appeal history

3370026
Dismissed
Type: Planning AppealProcedure: Written RepresentationsDecision: 21 October 2025Dev Type: Change of useReason: Refusal

Additional information

Documents
12

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • 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 (20)

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, 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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