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Plants Galore, Forches Cross, Staple Hill Road, Newton Abbot, Devon, TQ12 6PZ

08/00087/ENFAEnforcement Notice AppealApproved

Approved on 3 April 2009

Informal Hearing

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

Proposal

Appeal against Enforcement Notice No 05/00060/ENF - Change of use of building and land from horticultural use to a mixed use i) of retails sales and ii) a horticultural use

Submitted
15 October 2008
Decision level
Informal Hearing
Ward
Bradley (02/05/2019)
  1. Received15 Oct
  2. Validated15 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided3 Apr

Decided in 170 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a planning application for a change of use at Plants Galore, Forches Cross, Staple Hill Road, Newton Abbot, Devon, TQ12 6PZ. Teignbridge has handled 114 applications of this type. This one was decided in 170 days, 17 weeks longer than Teignbridge's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 2,357 applications in total for the TQ12 postcode area.

87% of all applications at Teignbridge District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
TQ12 6PZ
Application type
Enforcement Notice Appeal
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Newton Abbot

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 October 2008

Appeal

Appeal date
15 October 2008
Appeal result
Enforcement Appeal Allowed
Appeal decision date
3 April 2009

Additional information

Documents
11

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 and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

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

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© 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.

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