West Prawle Farm East Portlemouth TQ8 8PW

2250/25/CLECertificate of Lawfulness for Existing UseApproved

Lawful development certificate

Approved on 30 October 2025

Council decision: Cert of Lawfulness (Existing) Certified

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

Proposal

Certificate of lawfulness for existing use of caravan

Received: 30 July 2025
Council: South Hams District Council
Ward: Stokenham

ReceivedReceived30 Jul
ValidatedValidated6 Aug
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided30 Oct

Decided in 85 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at West Prawle Farm East Portlemouth TQ8 8PW. South West Devon has handled 516 applications of this type. This one was decided in 92 days, 5 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 64 applications across Stokenham. We hold 2,548 applications in total for the TQ8 postcode area.

78% of amendment 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: TQ8 8PW
Application type: Certificate of Lawfulness for Existing Use
Scale / size: Small
Parish: East Portlemouth
District: South Hams

Planning application dates

Date validated: 6 August 2025
Consultation start: 8 August 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address: 59 Fore Street Totnes TQ9 5NJ

Additional information

Documents: 9

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
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 (21)

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, 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.

Source: South West Devon

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