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Apartment 51 New Esplanade Court Esplanade Road Paignton TQ4 6BG

P/2019/0179Cert. of Lawfulness - ExistingApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 15 April 2019

Council decision: ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Certificate of lawfulness for existing use of Apartment 51 New Esplanade Court, Esplanade Road as a residential flat.

Received
14 February 2019
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Roundham With Hyde
  1. Received14 Feb
  2. Validated11 Mar
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided15 Apr

Decided in 35 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Apartment 51 New Esplanade Court Esplanade Road Paignton TQ4 6BG. Torbay has handled 149 applications of this type. This one was decided in 60 days, 4 days longer than Torbay's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 21 applications across Roundham With Hyde. We hold 416 applications in total for the TQ4 postcode area.

64% of amendment applications at Torbay Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
TQ4 6BG
Application type
Cert. of Lawfulness - Existing
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 March 2019

Publicity

Site notice start
20 March 2019

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-07626059
Comments
0
Documents
10

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Tree Preservation Order: Ref 1985.001Part of the site
Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, 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: Torbay

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