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West Meadows Ashreigney Chulmleigh Devon EX18 7NG

1/0815/2025/CPECertificate Existing Lawful Use/DevApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 7 January 2026

Council decision: Application ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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This information is subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 and is reproduced with the permission of HM Land Registry. The polygons (including the associated geometry, namely x, y co-ordinates) are subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 Ordnance Survey AC0000851063. Conditions of use.

Proposal

Certificate of existing lawful use for breach of condition 4 of planning approval 1/1490/1978 - agricultural occupancy condition

Received
21 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Winkleigh
  1. Received21 Oct
  2. Validated29 Oct
  3. Consult.5 Nov
  4. Target20 Nov
  5. Decided7 Jan

Decided in 70 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at West Meadows Ashreigney Chulmleigh Devon EX18 7NG. Torridge has handled 190 applications of this type. This one was decided in 78 days, 3 weeks longer than Torridge's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 35 applications across Winkleigh. We hold 132 applications in total for the EX18 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
EX18 7NG
Application type
Certificate Existing Lawful Use/Dev
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Ashreigney

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 October 2025
Consultation expiry
5 November 2025
Last date for comments
5 November 2025
Target decision date
20 November 2025
Permission expires
7 January 2029

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Tree Tops Northdown Road Bideford EX39 3NA

Planning decision

Statutory period
22 days

Publicity

Last advertised
5 November 2025
Advertisement expiry
5 November 2025

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
11
Constraints
7

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

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.

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