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Torre Railway Station Newton Road Torquay TQ2 5EU

P/2019/0909Listed Building ConsentApproved

Approved on 28 January 2020

Council decision: ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Replacement of platform and footbridge lighting with LED luminaires. The proposed development to which the application relates is situated within 10 metres of relevant railway land.

Received
24 August 2019
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Tormohun
  1. Received24 Aug
  2. Validated28 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided28 Jan

Decided in 92 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a heritage application at Torre Railway Station Newton Road Torquay TQ2 5EU. Torbay has handled 130 applications of this type. This one was decided in 157 days, 14 weeks longer than Torbay's typical decision time. The site is in the Torre conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 36 applications across Tormohun. We hold 1,287 applications in total for the TQ2 postcode area.

97% of heritage 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
TQ2 5EU
Application type
Listed Building Consent
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 October 2019
Consultation expiry
20 November 2019

Publicity

Last advertised
20 November 2019
Site notice start
20 November 2019

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-08091321
Comments
0
Documents
15

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, 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 and heritage coasts.

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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