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Leworthy Mill Farm Woolsery Bideford Devon EX39 5PY

1/0107/2024/FULFull ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 8 April 2024

Council decision: Application ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Change of use of piano room (C3 Use) to licensed wedding venue (Sui Generis) for use up to 5 times a year and creation of car park (Affecting a Public Right of Way)

Received
6 February 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Hartland
  1. Received6 Feb
  2. Validated12 Feb
  3. Consult.8 Mar
  4. Target5 Mar
  5. Decided8 Apr

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Leworthy Mill Farm Woolsery Bideford Devon EX39 5PY. Torridge has handled 2,880 applications of this type. This one was decided in 62 days, 6 days longer than Torridge's typical decision time. The site is in 2 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 70 applications across Hartland. 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 5PY
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Woolfardisworthy

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 February 2024
Consultation expiry
18 March 2024
Consultation start
13 February 2024
Consultation end
8 March 2024
Neighbour consultation start
13 February 2024
Neighbour consultation end
8 March 2024
Last date for comments
18 March 2024
Target decision date
5 March 2024
Permission expires
8 April 2027

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Tree Tops Northdown Road Bideford EX39 3NA

Planning decision

Statutory period
22 days

Publicity

Last advertised
21 February 2024
Advertisement expiry
16 March 2024
Site notice start
23 February 2024
Site notice end
18 March 2024

Additional information

Documents
16
Constraints
12

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

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 (21)

flood storage areas, conservation 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

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: Torridge

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