Land at Eastacombe Eastacombe Barnstaple Devon EX31 3NT Easting: 253675 Northing: 130078
Refused on 3 July 2025
Delegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Application for permission in principle for residential development for up to 5 dwellings, access and drainage
- Received
- 2 May 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- North Devon District Council
- Ward
- INSTOW
- ReceivedReceived2 May
- ValidatedValidated19 May
- Consult.Consultation25 Jun
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided3 Jul
Decided in 45 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an outline application at Land at Eastacombe Eastacombe Barnstaple Devon EX31 3NT Easting: 253675 Northing: 130078. North Devon has handled 401 applications of this type. This one was decided in 62 days, 6 days longer than North Devon's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,420 applications in total for the EX31 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
- EX31 3NT
- Application type
- Permission in Principle Not Brownfield
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- TAWSTOCK
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 19 May 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 25 June 2025
- Consultation start
- 19 May 2025
- Consultation end
- 25 June 2025
- Application expires
- 3 July 2025
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Victoria Street Barnstaple EX32 9HT
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 45 days
Publicity
- Advertisement expiry
- 25 June 2025
Appeal history
Additional information
- Documents
- 19
Site constraints
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: North Devon
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