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Land Opposite Higher Marsh New Road Bideford Devon EX39 5HB

1/0287/2025/CPECertificate Existing Lawful Use/DevApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 17 July 2025

Council decision: Application ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Certificate for existing lawful use and operation for the use of land as domestic garden and parking and the erection of buildings for domestic purposes in connection with Higher Marsh

Received
28 March 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Bideford South
  1. Received28 Mar
  2. Validated1 Apr
  3. Consult.9 Apr
  4. Target23 Apr
  5. Decided17 Jul

Decided in 107 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Land Opposite Higher Marsh New Road Bideford Devon EX39 5HB. Torridge has handled 190 applications of this type. This one was decided in 111 days, 8 weeks longer than Torridge's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 11 applications across Bideford South. We hold 1,865 applications in total for the EX39 postcode area.

89% of amendment 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 5HB
Application type
Certificate Existing Lawful Use/Dev
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bideford

Planning application dates

Date validated
1 April 2025
Consultation expiry
9 April 2025
Last date for comments
9 April 2025
Target decision date
23 April 2025
Permission expires
17 July 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent address
130 East Dyke Cottages Higher Clovelly Bideford Devon EX39 5RS

Planning decision

Statutory period
22 days

Publicity

Last advertised
9 April 2025
Advertisement expiry
9 April 2025

Additional information

Documents
20
Constraints
18

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Local nature reserve: Kynoch'S ForeshoreNext to 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 (21)

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, 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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