Land At Sx 548 541 Aquila Drive Sherford Plymouth
Approved on 4 August 2026
Council decision: Conditional Approval8 conditions
Proposal
Application for approval of all reserved matters following outline approval reference 0825/18/VAR relating to access, appearance, landscaping, layout & scale for a development of 72 bed care home with sub station, parking and landscaping (the Outline application was EIA and an Environmental Statement was submitted)
- Received
- 13 February 2026
- Council
- South Hams District Council
- Ward
- Wembury & Brixton
- ReceivedReceived13 Feb
- ValidatedValidated13 Feb
- Consult.Consultation30 Mar
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided4 Aug
Decided in 172 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an outline application at Land At Sx 548 541 Aquila Drive Sherford Plymouth. South West Devon has handled 817 applications of this type. This one was decided in 172 days, 17 weeks 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 46 applications across Wembury & Brixton.
80% of outline 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
- Application type
- Approval Of Reserved Matters
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Brixton
- District
- South Hams
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 13 February 2026
- Consultation expiry
- 30 March 2026
- Consultation start
- 17 February 2026
- Consultation end
- 30 March 2026
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Orion One 108 High Street Crawley RH10 1BD
Publicity
- Advertisement expiry
- 30 March 2026
Additional information
- Documents
- 44
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. Ask the council if these matter.
Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.
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: South West Devon
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