Priory Cottages Beach Road Paignton TQ4 6AY

P/2025/0769Cert. of Lawfulness - ExistingApproved

Lawful development certificate

Approved on 17 June 2026

Council decision: ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Establish use of five cottages for permanent and continuous residential use [Revised site location plan received 6/5/2026]

Received: 1 December 2025
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments: 2
Council: Torbay Council
Ward: Roundham With Hyde
Agent: Lofthouse Property and Management Limited

ReceivedReceived1 Dec
ValidatedValidated12 Feb
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided17 Jun

Decided in 125 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Priory Cottages Beach Road Paignton TQ4 6AY. Torbay has handled 149 applications of this type. This one was decided in 198 days, 20 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 6AY
Application type: Cert. of Lawfulness - Existing

Planning application dates

Date validated: 12 February 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent: Lofthouse Property and Management Limited
Agent address: 11 Derwent Road Torquay TQ1 3QL United Kingdom

Publicity

Site notice start: 14 May 2026

Additional information

Planning Portal ID: PP-14499286

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)

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.

Source: Torbay

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