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Penrose Almshouses Litchdon Street Barnstaple Devon EX32 8NH

80912Full ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 26 November 2025

Delegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Re-roofing of a flat roof to pitched slate roof on the single storey rear extension at 10/11 Penrose Almshouses

Received
8 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
BARNSTAPLE CENTRAL
  1. Received8 Oct
  2. Validated8 Oct
  3. Consult.7 Nov
  4. Target
  5. Decided26 Nov

Decided in 49 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a single storey rear extension at Penrose Almshouses Litchdon Street Barnstaple Devon EX32 8NH. North Devon has handled 2,161 applications of this type. This one was decided in 49 days, 7 days quicker than North Devon's typical decision time. The site is in the Barnstaple - Town Centre conservation area, with 19 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 37 applications across BARNSTAPLE CENTRAL. We hold 453 applications in total for the EX32 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
EX32 8NH
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
BARNSTAPLE

Planning application dates

Date validated
8 October 2025
Consultation expiry
7 November 2025
Consultation start
10 October 2025
Consultation end
7 November 2025
Application expires
3 December 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
1 Enterprise Road Roundswell Barnstaple EX31 3YB

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
5 November 2025

Additional information

Documents
19

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

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, 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.

Associated applications

  1. 2025
    8 Oct

    Re-roofing of a flat roof to pitched slate roof on the single storey rear extension at 10/11 Penrose…

    This applicationApprovedFull80912
  2. 2025
    8 Oct

    Listed building consent for re-roofing of a flat roof to pitched slate roof on the single storey rear…

    ApprovedListed building consentFiled alongside80920

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