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Apartment 15 New Esplanade Court Esplanade Road Paignton TQ4 6BG

P/2025/0487Cert. of Lawfulness - ExistingApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 12 November 2025

Council decision: ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Certificate of lawfulness for existing: change of use from holiday let to residential use.

Received
4 August 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Roundham With Hyde
  1. Received4 Aug
  2. Validated9 Sep
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided12 Nov

Decided in 64 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Apartment 15 New Esplanade Court Esplanade Road Paignton TQ4 6BG. Torbay has handled 149 applications of this type. This one was decided in 100 days, 6 weeks 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

Planning application dates

Date validated
9 September 2025

Publicity

Site notice start
25 September 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14221647
Comments
0

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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