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Bluecoat Primary School Whites Lane Great Torrington Torrington Devon EX38 8DS

1/0190/2012/OUTOutline ApplicationWithdrawn
Outline / PiP

Withdrawn on 28 June 2012

Council decision: Application Withdrawn

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Development of the rear grounds of former school site to provide 8no. family dwellings with associated external works.

Received
7 March 2012
Public comments
1
Ward
Great Torrington
  1. Received7 Mar
  2. Validated21 Mar
  3. Consult.17 May
  4. Target16 May
  5. Decided28 Jun

Decided in 99 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Bluecoat Primary School Whites Lane Great Torrington Torrington Devon EX38 8DS. Torridge has handled 382 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 113 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. The site is in 14 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 24 applications across Great Torrington. We hold 672 applications in total for the EX38 postcode area.

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

Postcode
EX38 8DS
Application type
Outline Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Great Torrington

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 March 2012
Consultation expiry
17 May 2012
Consultation start
28 June 2012
Consultation end
17 May 2012
Neighbour consultation start
27 March 2012
Neighbour consultation end
17 April 2012
Last date for comments
17 May 2012
Target decision date
16 May 2012
Application expires
12 April 2012
Permission expires
28 June 2015

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Stonehouse Business Centre Waterloo Close Stonehouse Plymouth Devon PL1 3ST United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
29 March 2012
Advertisement expiry
18 April 2012
Site notice start
4 April 2012
Site notice end
24 April 2012

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-01849941
Documents
20

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)

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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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© 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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