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Great Dower Park Drewsteignton EX6 6RG

3045/25/PAUPrior Approval for change of Agricultural Building to flexible commercial B2, B8, C1 or EApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 8 December 2025

Council decision: Prior Approval Not Required

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

Proposal

Application to determine if prior approval is required for a proposed change of use under Class R of agricultural buildings to Class B8 (Storage and Distribution)

Received
14 October 2025
Ward
Drewsteignton
  1. Received14 Oct
  2. Validated21 Oct
  3. Consult.18 Nov
  4. Target
  5. Decided8 Dec

Decided in 48 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Great Dower Park Drewsteignton EX6 6RG. South West Devon has handled 817 applications of this type. This one was decided in 55 days. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 12 applications across Drewsteignton. We hold 1,608 applications in total for the EX6 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
EX6 6RG
Application type
Prior Approval for change of Agricultural Building to flexible commercial B2, B8, C1 or E
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Drewsteignton
District
West Devon

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 October 2025
Consultation expiry
18 November 2025
Consultation end
18 November 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
5 Maple Close Dobwalls Liskeard Cornwall and Isles of Scilly PL14 6FA

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.

  • Listed building: Grade II: Torhill CottageOn or next to this site
  • National park: Dartmoor
  • 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, 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 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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