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Land North Of Church Lane Littleham Devon

1/0701/2025/PIPPermission In PrincipleRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 15 October 2025

Council decision: Application RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Permission in principle for residential development up to 7no. dwellings

Received
8 September 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
13
Ward
Monkleigh And Putford
  1. Received8 Sep
  2. Validated9 Sep
  3. Consult.3 Oct
  4. Target15 Oct
  5. Decided15 Oct

Decided in 36 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Land North Of Church Lane Littleham Devon. Torridge has handled 382 applications of this type. This one was decided in 37 days, 3 weeks quicker than Torridge's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 30 applications across Monkleigh And Putford.

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

Application type
Permission In Principle
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Littleham

Planning application dates

Date validated
9 September 2025
Consultation expiry
11 October 2025
Consultation start
15 October 2025
Consultation end
3 October 2025
Neighbour consultation start
10 September 2025
Neighbour consultation end
24 September 2025
Last date for comments
19 October 2025
Target decision date
15 October 2025
Permission expires
15 October 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Unit 1 Innovation Court Clovelly Road Industrial Estate Bideford Devon EX39 3GD

Planning decision

Statutory period
36 days

Publicity

Last advertised
17 September 2025
Advertisement expiry
11 October 2025
Site notice start
25 September 2025
Site notice end
9 October 2025

Appeal history

6007908
Dismissed
Type: Planning AppealProcedure: Written RepresentationsDecision: 6 July 2026Dev Type: Minor DwellingsReason: refused

Additional information

Documents
27
Constraints
10

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.

Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2022
    25 Nov

    Proposed five detached dwellings, access and open space

    RefusedFull Application1/1193/2022/FUL

Source: Torridge

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