Washington House Watcombe Beach Road Torquay TQ1 4SH
Approved on 9 August 2024
Council decision: ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Alteration to external pipework and below ground drainage to facilitate provision of replacement sewage treatment plant.
- Received
- 24 May 2024
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Torbay Council
- Ward
- St Marychurch
- ReceivedReceived24 May
- ValidatedValidated10 Jun
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided9 Aug
Decided in 60 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a heritage application at Washington House Watcombe Beach Road Torquay TQ1 4SH. Torbay has handled 130 applications of this type. This one was decided in 77 days, 3 weeks longer than Torbay's typical decision time. The site is in the Old Chiswick conservation area, with 10 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 16 applications across St Marychurch. We hold 1,085 applications in total for the TQ1 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
- TQ1 4SH
- Application type
- Listed Building Consent
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 10 June 2024
- Consultation expiry
- 17 July 2024
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Savills
- Agent address
- Sterling Court, 7 Dix's Field, Exeter Devon EX1 1QA
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 17 July 2024
- Site notice start
- 17 July 2024
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Watcombe Park
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)
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, 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.
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Planning history at this site
1 other application at this property, newest first.
Source: Torbay
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