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National Trust Car Park South Milton Sands National Trust Car Park Thurleston TQ7 3JY

0111/26/FULFull Planning ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 17 March 2026

Council decision: Conditional Approval2 conditions

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

Proposal

The installation of parking equipment, including 1x solar payment contactless & coin terminal, 1x solar payment contactless terminal, 1x ANPR camera with associated equipment and 3 x sign posts.

Received
15 January 2026
Ward
Salcombe & Thurlestone
  1. Received15 Jan
  2. Validated23 Jan
  3. Consult.26 Feb
  4. Target
  5. Decided17 Mar

Decided in 53 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a solar installation at National Trust Car Park South Milton Sands National Trust Car Park Thurleston TQ7 3JY. South West Devon has handled 5,838 applications of this type. This one was decided in 61 days, 5 days longer than South West Devon's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 183 applications across Salcombe & Thurlestone. We hold 997 applications in total for the TQ7 postcode area.

89% of full applications at South Hams District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
TQ7 3JY
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
South Huish, South Milton
District
South Hams

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 January 2026
Consultation expiry
26 February 2026
Consultation start
26 January 2026
Consultation end
26 February 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Spring Bank House 33 Stamford Street Altrincham WA14 1ES

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
26 February 2026

Additional information

Documents
18

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): South Devon
  • Heritage coast: South Devon
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions. Ask the council if these matter.

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

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: South West Devon

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