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Connybear Farm Shop St Marychurch Road Newton Abbot TQ12 4SE

26/00711/PIPRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 3 August 2026

4 reasons for refusal

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

Proposal

Permission in Principle for up to 9 dwellings

Received
24 June 2026
Ward
Wickford Park
  1. Received24 Jun
  2. Validated30 Jun
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided3 Aug

Decided in 34 days

About this application

This is a planning application at Connybear Farm Shop St Marychurch Road Newton Abbot TQ12 4SE. Teignbridge has handled 5,974 applications of this type. This one was decided in 97 days, 7 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.

Why it was refused

  1. The proposed development would provide up to nine new dwellings within the designated open countryside outside of any defined settlement limit, with no justification to demonstrate accordance with Policy GP3 (Settlement Limits and the Countryside) of the adopted Teignbridge Local Plan 2020 – 2040.
  2. The location is removed from facilities and services and will lead to an over reliance on the use of private car as the main mode of transport. The Local Plan requires development to be located and designed to promote public transport, cycling and walking as the transport modes of choice, minimising dependence on cars and promoting safe and sustainable movements. As such it is considered that the proposed development fails to accord with Policies GP1, GP2, GP3 and CC4 of the adopted Teignbridge Local Plan 2020-2040 and Paragraph 117 of the National Planning Policy Framework.
  3. The location is removed from facilities and services, and the proposed development is likely to generate an increase in pedestrian movements on a highway lacking pavements and without lighting to serve pedestrians, with consequent additional danger to all users of the road contrary to Paragraphs 110, 115 and 117 of the National Planning Policy Framework and Policy GP1 of the adopted Teignbridge Local Plan 2020 – 2040.
  4. The proposed development is located within the open countryside in the Beccia Hills and Coast Landscape Area. This area is strongly characterised by its deeply rural character. The proposed residential development would fail to conserve or enhance this landscape character nor would it reinforce local distinctiveness through the introduction of a poorly related street of residential bungalows. As such the proposals fail to accord with Policies GP1 and EN4 of the adopted Teignbridge Local Plan 2020 – 2040 and Paragraph 187 of the National Planning Policy Framework.

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
TQ12 4SE
Parish
Wickford Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 June 2026

Planning decision

Case officer
Miranda Webb

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

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: Teignbridge

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