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Lawes Road Site Land Between Summerfield Road & Newton Road Torquay TQ2 7DL

P/2025/0625Notification from Network RailApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 24 November 2025

Council decision: Permitted DevelopmentDelegated (officer decision)

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Drainage interventions, including removal of trees and vegetation. (The proposed development to which the application relates is situated within 10 metres of relevant railway land.)

Received
30 September 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Tormohun
  1. Received30 Sep
  2. Validated30 Sep
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided24 Nov

Decided in 55 days

About this application

This is a planning application at Lawes Road Site Land Between Summerfield Road & Newton Road Torquay TQ2 7DL. Torbay has handled 4,663 applications of this type. This one was decided in 55 days. There are no previous applications recorded 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.

Application details

Postcode
TQ2 7DL
Application type
Notification from Network Rail

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 September 2025

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Tree Preservation Order: Ref 2006.016Part of the site
  • 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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