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Land At Sx 675 504 (Harraton Sheds), Modbury

3416/25/PIPPermission In PrincipleRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 19 December 2025

Council decision: Refusal2 reasons for refusal

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Proposal

Permission in principle application for 7 dwellings including 3 affordable units

Received
19 November 2025
Ward
Loddiswell & Aveton Gifford
  1. Received19 Nov
  2. Validated21 Nov
  3. Consult.15 Dec
  4. Target
  5. Decided19 Dec

Decided in 28 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Land At Sx 675 504 (Harraton Sheds), Modbury. South West Devon has handled 817 applications of this type. This one was decided in 30 days, 4 weeks quicker than South West Devon's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 65 applications across Loddiswell & Aveton Gifford.

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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Why it was refused

  1. The proposed development is in an unsustainable location, where occupants would be reliant on private cars for the majority of their journeys, due to the lack of safe access to public transport, walking, or cycling routes. It is therefore not a suitable location for residential development, and is contrary to policies SPT1, SPT2, TTV1, and TTV2, of the Plymouth & South West Devon Joint Local Plan (2014- 2034), policy AG1 of the Aveton Gifford Neighbourhood Plan (2020- 2034) and paragraphs 8, 10, and 11 of the National Planning Policy Framework (2025).
  2. The proposal fails to provide appropriate mitigation towards the additional recreational pressures of the development on the Tamar European Marine Site (comprising the Plymouth Sound and Estuaries SAC and Tamar Estuaries Complex SPA), contrary to policies SPT14 and DEV26 of the Plymouth & South West Devon Joint Local Plan 2014-2034.

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Application type
Permission In Principle
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Aveton Gifford
District
South Hams

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 November 2025
Consultation expiry
15 December 2025
Consultation start
24 November 2025
Consultation end
15 December 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
33 Rope Building Alma Yard Plymouth Devon PL4 0FF

Additional information

Documents
10

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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 parks, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

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Source: South West Devon

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