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4 Warefield Road Paignton TQ3 2BH

P/2025/0251Cert. of Lawfulness - ExistingRefused
Lawful development certificate

Refused on 2 September 2025

Council decision: RefusalDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Certificate of lawfulness for existing: HMO with licence for 8 occupants and 8 rooms & flat to basement.

Received
1 May 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
7
Ward
Roundham With Hyde
  1. Received1 May
  2. Validated4 Jun
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided2 Sep

Decided in 90 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 4 Warefield Road Paignton TQ3 2BH. Torbay has handled 149 applications of this type. This one was decided in 124 days, 10 weeks longer than Torbay's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 21 applications across Roundham With Hyde. We hold 1,005 applications in total for the TQ3 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
TQ3 2BH
Application type
Cert. of Lawfulness - Existing

Planning application dates

Date validated
4 June 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
FAO Mr Chris Baker 18 Reynell Avenue Newton Abbot TQ124HE

Publicity

Site notice start
19 June 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13859571

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (24)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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.

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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