5 Cornmarket Street Torrington Devon EX38 8EY
Approved on 28 November 2012
Council decision: Application ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
To convert existing 3 bedroom maisonette into two, one bedroom apartments.
- Received
- 5 September 2012
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Torridge District Council
- Ward
- Great Torrington
- ReceivedReceived5 Sep
- ValidatedValidated18 Oct
- Consult.Consultation19 Dec
- TargetTarget Date13 Dec
- DecidedDecided28 Nov
Decided in 41 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application at 5 Cornmarket Street Torrington Devon EX38 8EY. Torridge has handled 2,880 applications of this type. This one was decided in 84 days, 4 weeks longer than Torridge's typical decision time. The site is in the Great Torrington conservation area, with 20 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.
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
- Postcode
- EX38 8EY
- Application type
- Full Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Great Torrington
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 18 October 2012
- Consultation expiry
- 19 December 2012
- Consultation start
- 28 November 2012
- Consultation end
- 19 December 2012
- Neighbour consultation start
- 19 October 2012
- Neighbour consultation end
- 9 November 2012
- Last date for comments
- 19 December 2012
- Target decision date
- 13 December 2012
- Application expires
- 9 November 2012
- Permission expires
- 28 November 2015
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Whites Farm House West Buckland Somerset TA21 9LP
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 25 October 2012
- Advertisement expiry
- 14 November 2012
- Site notice start
- 25 October 2012
- Site notice end
- 14 November 2012
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- 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 (20)
flood storage areas, 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.
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