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Torquay Girls Grammar School 30 Shiphay Lane Torquay TQ2 7DY

P/2025/0599Planning ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 29 October 2025

Council decision: ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Internal amendments and new windows to existing exam hall to form 3 IT classrooms, new external entrance over entrance doors and new independent external canopy to hard standing.

Received
22 September 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Shiphay
  1. Received22 Sep
  2. Validated22 Sep
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided29 Oct

Decided in 37 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for window replacement at Torquay Girls Grammar School 30 Shiphay Lane Torquay TQ2 7DY. Torbay has handled 2,035 applications of this type. This one was decided in 37 days, 3 weeks quicker 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 Shiphay. We hold 1,287 applications in total for the TQ2 postcode area.

83% of full 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 7DY
Application type
Planning Application

Planning application dates

Date validated
22 September 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Minerva House Highweek Street Newton Abbot TQ12 1TQ United Kingdom

Publicity

Site notice start
2 October 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14346430

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Tree Preservation Order: Ref 1963.001Protected tree on or next to this site · +1 more
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
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.

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