Land At Grid Reference 244880 129879 Northam Devon
Approved on 27 February 2026
Council decision: Application ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)8 conditions
Proposal
Proposed equestrian stables, part-retrospective access and associated works
- Received
- 5 September 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 10
- Council
- Torridge District Council
- Ward
- Appledore
- ReceivedReceived5 Sep
- ValidatedValidated24 Sep
- Consult.Consultation23 Mar
- TargetTarget Date16 Oct
- DecidedDecided27 Feb
Decided in 156 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application at Land At Grid Reference 244880 129879 Northam Devon. Torridge has handled 2,880 applications of this type. This one was decided in 175 days, 17 weeks longer than Torridge's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 17 applications across Appledore.
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
- Application type
- Full Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Northam
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 24 September 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 23 March 2026
- Consultation start
- 27 February 2026
- Consultation end
- 23 March 2026
- Neighbour consultation start
- 24 September 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 18 October 2025
- Last date for comments
- 23 March 2026
- Target decision date
- 16 October 2025
- Permission expires
- 27 February 2029
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Unit 1 Innovation Court Clovelly Road Industrial Estate Bideford EX39 3GD
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 22 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 1 October 2025
- Advertisement expiry
- 25 October 2025
- Site notice start
- 17 October 2025
- Site notice end
- 10 November 2025
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14286940
- Documents
- 47
- Constraints
- 16
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)
- National Landscape (AONB): North Devon
- SSSI: Taw-Torridge Estuary SSSI
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, 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, 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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Associated applications
- 202615 Jul
Discharge of conditions 3 and 4 of planning approval 1/0698/2025/FUL
PendingDischarge of conditions1/0062/2026/DIS - 20255 Sep
Proposed equestrian stables, part-retrospective access and associated works
This applicationApprovedFull1/0698/2025/FUL
Source: Torridge
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