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Sherford New Community Elburton Plymouth PL9 8DD

4117/24/ARMApproval Of Reserved MattersApproved
Reserved matters

Approved on 20 June 2025

Council decision: Conditional Approval7 conditions

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

Proposal

Application for approval of all reserved matters for 258 residential dwellings, on parcels 34-42 & associated parking along with all necessary infrastructure including, highways, drainage, landscaping, sub stations, as part of Phase 3B of Sherford New Community, pursuant to approval 0825/18/VAR (which was an EIA development & an Environmental Statement was submitted)

Received
27 December 2024
Ward
Wembury & Brixton
  1. Received27 Dec
  2. Validated27 Dec
  3. Consult.10 Feb
  4. Target
  5. Decided20 Jun

Decided in 175 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Sherford New Community Elburton Plymouth PL9 8DD. South West Devon has handled 817 applications of this type. This one was decided in 175 days, 17 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 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 8DD
Application type
Approval Of Reserved Matters
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
258
Parish
Brixton
District
South Hams

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 December 2024
Consultation expiry
10 February 2025
Consultation start
6 January 2025
Consultation end
10 February 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
St Andrews 35 Alphington Road Exeter EX2 8HP

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
10 February 2025

Additional information

Documents
244

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.

Associated applications

  1. 2026
    14 Sep

    NMM to Countryside application 4117/24/ARM

    ApprovedNon-material amendmentAmendment2575/26/NMM
  2. 2024
    27 Dec

    Application for approval of all reserved matters for 258 residential dwellings, on parcels 34-42 & associated…

    This applicationApprovedReserved matters4117/24/ARM

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