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Trelawney Five Lanes Road Marldon TQ3 1NQ

3174/25/HHOHouseholder ApplicationRefused
Householder

Refused on 9 January 2026

Council decision: Refusal1 reason for refusal

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

Proposal

Householder application for proposed alterations to existing dwelling including first floor extension & 2 two storey side extensions

Received
27 October 2025
Ward
Marldon & Littlehempston
  1. Received27 Oct
  2. Validated6 Nov
  3. Consult.11 Dec
  4. Target
  5. Decided9 Jan

Decided in 64 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for an extension at Trelawney Five Lanes Road Marldon TQ3 1NQ. South West Devon has handled 5,838 applications of this type. This one was decided in 74 days, 3 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 40 applications across Marldon & Littlehempston. We hold 1,005 applications in total for the TQ3 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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Why it was refused

  1. The application property is situated on Five Lanes Road within a street scene characterised by modestly sized bungalows on wide plots which gives the street scene an air of spaciousness. The proposed extensions to both sides of the dwelling, together with the provision of a new raised roof, would significantly increase the scale and massing of the dwelling, rendering it out of scale, character and context with the prevailing street scene, such that it would constitute an unduly dominant and unsympathetic form of development contrary to Policy DEV20 of the adopted Plymouth and South West Devon Joint Local Plan (2014-2034) and paragraph 135 of the National Planning Policy Framework.

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
TQ3 1NQ
Application type
Householder Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Marldon
District
South Hams

Planning application dates

Date validated
6 November 2025
Consultation expiry
11 December 2025
Consultation start
6 November 2025
Consultation end
11 December 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
54 Heritage Way Berry Head With Furzeham BRIXHAM TQ5 9FN

Additional information

Documents
30

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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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