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Land South of Woolwell Centre, Woolwell

4240/23/CLPCertificate of Lawfulness for Proposed UseApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 1 March 2024

Council decision: Cert of Lawfulness (Proposed) Certified

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Certificate of lawfulness for proposed creation of a tarmac track for wheeled sports, with associated reprofiling of earth at the site to create supporting berms & features

Received
21 December 2023
Ward
Woolwell
  1. Received21 Dec
  2. Validated21 Dec
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided1 Mar

Decided in 71 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Land South of Woolwell Centre, Woolwell. 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. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 2 applications across Woolwell. We hold 305 applications in total for the PL6 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
PL6 7RQ
Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness for Proposed Use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bickleigh
District
South Hams

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 December 2023
Committee meeting
14 February 2024

Publicity

Site notice start
12 January 2024

Additional information

Documents
13

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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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