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Cromwell House Castle Street Great Torrington Torrington Devon EX38 8EZ

1/0719/2011/COUChange of UseRefused
Discharge / amendments

Refused on 15 November 2011

Council decision: Application RefusedPlanning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use from residential care home to dwelling in multiple occupation

Received
20 July 2011
Decision level
Planning committee
Public comments
21
Ward
Great Torrington
  1. Received20 Jul
  2. Validated20 Jul
  3. Consult.16 Nov
  4. Target14 Sep
  5. Decided15 Nov

Decided in 118 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Cromwell House Castle Street Great Torrington Torrington Devon EX38 8EZ. Torridge has handled 190 applications of this type. This one was decided in 118 days, 9 weeks longer than Torridge's typical decision time. The site is in the Great Torrington conservation area, with 9 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.

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
EX38 8EZ
Application type
Change of Use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Great Torrington

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 July 2011
Consultation expiry
16 November 2011
Consultation start
15 November 2011
Consultation end
16 November 2011
Neighbour consultation start
28 July 2011
Neighbour consultation end
18 August 2011
Last date for comments
16 November 2011
Target decision date
14 September 2011
Committee meeting
3 November 2011
Application expires
11 August 2011
Permission expires
15 November 2014

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Suite A: The Old Workhouse The Chestnuts Cross Houses Shrewsbury Shropshire SY5 6JH

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
4 August 2011
Advertisement expiry
24 August 2011
Site notice start
10 August 2011
Site notice end
30 August 2011

Appeal

Appeal status
Appeal Granted
Appeal result
Appeal Allowed

Additional information

Documents
55
Constraints
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Great Torrington
  • 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 (21)

flood storage 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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© 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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