Highfield, Challaborough, TQ7 4JB

0522/26/CLPCertificate of Lawfulness for Proposed UseApproved

Outline / PiP

Approved on 15 April 2026

Council decision: Cert of Lawfulness (Proposed) Certified

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

Proposal

Certificate of lawfulness for proposed siting a caravan within the domestic garden

Received: 24 February 2026
Council: South Hams District Council
Ward: Charterlands

ReceivedReceived24 Feb
ValidatedValidated24 Feb
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided15 Apr

Decided in 50 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Highfield, Challaborough, TQ7 4JB. South West Devon has handled 817 applications of this type. This one was decided in 50 days, 6 days quicker 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 70 applications across Charterlands. We hold 997 applications in total for the TQ7 postcode area.

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

Postcode: TQ7 4JB
Application type: Certificate of Lawfulness for Proposed Use
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Bigbury
District: South Hams

Planning application dates

Date validated: 24 February 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address: Luscombe Maye 59 Fore Street Totnes Devon TQ9 5NJ

Additional information

Documents: 9

Site constraints

Checking the site

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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.

Source: South West Devon

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