49 & 51 Fore Street Brixham TQ5 8AG

P/2025/0632Planning ApplicationApproved

Full

Approved on 20 February 2026

Council decision: Permission With Legal AgreementDelegated (officer decision)

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Merging existing ground floor office units of No. 49 & 51 to form open plan office space & change of use of No. 49's first & second floors from office space to 1no. 1-bed self-contained flat.

Received: 3 October 2025
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments: 3
Council: Torbay Council
Ward: St Peters With St Marys

ReceivedReceived3 Oct
ValidatedValidated3 Oct
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided20 Feb

Decided in 140 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 49 & 51 Fore Street Brixham TQ5 8AG. Torbay has handled 2,035 applications of this type. This one was decided in 140 days, 12 weeks longer than Torbay's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 27 applications across St Peters With St Marys. We hold 769 applications in total for the TQ5 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: TQ5 8AG
Application type: Planning Application

Planning application dates

Date validated: 3 October 2025
Consultation expiry: 16 October 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address: FAO Mr Adrian Shoare 14 Newcomen Road Brixham TQ6 9BN

Publicity

Last advertised: 16 October 2025
Site notice start: 16 October 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID: PP-14359589

Site constraints

Checking the site

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Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
Conservation area: Brixham Town

Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage 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.

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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.

Source: Torbay

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