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Car Park To The East Of South Devon College Long Road Paignton TQ4 7BJ

P/2026/0150Approved

Approved on 13 August 2026

Council decision: Approval

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Change of use of existing car park (associated F1 use) for the operations of ArcMarine (use class E), including the siting of containers, research and development, and ancillary storage of materials and plant on site.

Received
12 March 2026
  1. Received12 Mar
  2. Validated26 Jun
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided13 Aug

Decided in 48 days

About this application

This is a planning application for a change of use at Car Park To The East Of South Devon College Long Road Paignton TQ4 7BJ. Torbay has handled 4,663 applications of this type. This one was decided in 48 days, 8 days quicker than Torbay's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 416 applications in total for the TQ4 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
TQ4 7BJ

Planning application dates

Date validated
26 June 2026

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 1: Low 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.

© 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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