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South Street Car Park Torrington Devon

1/0002/2014/SCRScreening OpinionApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 19 March 2014

Council decision: Screening Opinion Completed

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Proposed Food Store and Associated Parking

Received
29 January 2014
Ward
Great Torrington
  1. Received29 Jan
  2. Validated29 Jan
  3. Consult.
  4. Target19 Feb
  5. Decided19 Mar

Decided in 49 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at South Street Car Park Torrington Devon. Torridge has handled 382 applications of this type. This one was decided in 49 days, 7 days quicker than Torridge's typical decision time. The site is in the Great Torrington conservation area, with 10 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 24 applications across Great Torrington.

80% of outline applications at Torridge District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Application type
Screening Opinion
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Great Torrington

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 January 2014
Target decision date
19 February 2014

Applicant and agent

Agent address
140 London Wall London EC2Y 5DN

Planning decision

Statutory period
21 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
3
Constraints
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Great Torrington
  • Listed building: Grade II: Conservative ClubOn or next to this site · +5 more
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (20)

flood storage areas, 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

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© 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.

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