Wembury Cottage, Bovisand Lane, Down Thomas, PL9 0AE
Refused on 21 August 2019
Council decision: Refusal
Proposal
Erection of 3no detached dwellings
- Received
- 15 October 2018
- Council
- South Hams District Council
- Ward
- Wembury & Brixton
- ReceivedReceived15 Oct
- ValidatedValidated31 Oct
- Consult.Consultation7 Dec
- TargetTarget Date11 Jul
- DecidedDecided21 Aug
Decided in 294 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an outline application at Wembury Cottage, Bovisand Lane, Down Thomas, PL9 0AE. South West Devon has handled 817 applications of this type. This one was decided in 310 days, 36 weeks longer than South West Devon's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 46 applications across Wembury & Brixton. We hold 699 applications in total for the PL9 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
- PL9 0AE
- Application type
- Outline Planning Application
- Scale / size
- Medium
- Parish
- Wembury
- District
- South Hams
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 31 October 2018
- Consultation expiry
- 7 December 2018
- Consultation start
- 2 November 2018
- Consultation end
- 7 December 2018
- Last date for comments
- 7 December 2018
- Target decision date
- 11 July 2019
- Committee meeting
- 27 September 2017
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Barbican House 36 New Street Barbican Plymouth PL1 2NA
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 253 days
Publicity
- Advertisement expiry
- 7 December 2018
Appeal
- Appeal reference
- APP/K1128/W/19/3243854
- Appeal date
- 5 February 2020
- Appeal result
- Dismissed (Refusal)
- Appeal decision date
- 23 July 2020
Additional information
- Documents
- 48
Site constraints
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.
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Planning history at this site
3 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 202625 Feb
Application for approval of details reserved by conditions 7 (Hard & Soft Landscaping) & 10…
Discharge of Condition ApprovedDischarge of conditions0531/26/ARC - 202616 Jan
Application for approval of details reserved by condition 5 (CMP) of planning consent 3601/24/FUL
Discharge of Condition ApprovedDischarge of conditions0123/26/ARC - 20248 Nov
Erection of self build detached dwelling
ApprovedFull Planning Application3601/24/FUL
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