Woodville Farm East The Water Bideford Devon EX39 4QB
Approved on 1 April 2019
Council decision: Application ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Change of use of land from agricultural to equestrian and creation of all weather riding area for private use
- Received
- 25 January 2019
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 3
- Council
- Torridge District Council
- Ward
- Bideford East
- ReceivedReceived25 Jan
- ValidatedValidated8 Feb
- Consult.Consultation9 Mar
- TargetTarget Date2 Mar
- DecidedDecided1 Apr
Decided in 52 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a change of use at Woodville Farm East The Water Bideford Devon EX39 4QB. Torridge has handled 2,880 applications of this type. This one was decided in 66 days, 10 days longer than Torridge's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 15 applications across Bideford East. We hold 1,865 applications in total for the EX39 postcode area.
91% of full 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
- Postcode
- EX39 4QB
- Application type
- Full Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Bideford
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 8 February 2019
- Consultation expiry
- 17 March 2019
- Consultation start
- 1 April 2019
- Consultation end
- 9 March 2019
- Last date for comments
- 17 March 2019
- Target decision date
- 2 March 2019
- Permission expires
- 1 April 2022
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Woodville Farm Hammerton Road EX39 4QB
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 22 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 21 February 2019
- Advertisement expiry
- 21 February 2019
- Site notice start
- 21 February 2019
- Site notice end
- 17 March 2019
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-07558795
- Documents
- 16
- Constraints
- 7
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
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 (22)
flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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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