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Development Site Higher Seawardstone Farm Halwell

3731/25/PDMPrior Approval Agricultural Building to Dwelling C3Approved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 3 March 2026

Council decision: Prior Approval Required and Given4 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application to determine if prior approval is required for a proposed change of use of agricultural buildings to 3No dwellinghouses (Class C3) & for associated development (Class Q (a+c))

Received
22 December 2025
Ward
Blackawton & Stoke Fleming
  1. Received22 Dec
  2. Validated12 Jan
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided3 Mar

Decided in 50 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Development Site Higher Seawardstone Farm Halwell. South West Devon has handled 817 applications of this type. This one was decided in 71 days, 2 weeks longer than South West Devon's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 7 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 59 applications across Blackawton & Stoke Fleming. We hold 2,951 applications in total for the TQ9 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
TQ9 7JB
Application type
Prior Approval Agricultural Building to Dwelling C3
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Halwell and Moreleigh
District
South Hams

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 January 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
59 Fore Street Totnes TQ9 5NJ

Additional information

Documents
20

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 (21)

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, 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

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© 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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