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Five Acre Woodtown East The Water Bideford Devon EX39 4PP

1/0838/2025/FULFull ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 22 January 2026

Council decision: Application ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Part retrospective change of use of land to residential garden, demolition of single storey extension to be replaced with two storey extension and accommodation to the first floor. Detached garage and alterations to access.

Received
29 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
5
Ward
Two Rivers And Three Moors
  1. Received29 Oct
  2. Validated27 Nov
  3. Consult.21 Dec
  4. Target19 Dec
  5. Decided22 Jan

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at Five Acre Woodtown East The Water Bideford Devon EX39 4PP. Torridge has handled 2,880 applications of this type. This one was decided in 85 days, 4 weeks longer than Torridge's typical decision time. There have been 5 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 62 applications across Two Rivers And Three Moors. We hold 1,865 applications in total for the EX39 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
EX39 4PP
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Alverdiscott

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 November 2025
Consultation expiry
1 January 2026
Consultation start
22 January 2026
Consultation end
21 December 2025
Neighbour consultation start
27 November 2025
Neighbour consultation end
21 December 2025
Last date for comments
1 January 2026
Target decision date
19 December 2025
Permission expires
22 January 2029

Applicant and agent

Agent address
27 Old Bideford Road Sticklepath Barnstaple EX31 2DE

Planning decision

Statutory period
22 days

Publicity

Last advertised
3 December 2025
Advertisement expiry
3 December 2025
Site notice start
8 December 2025
Site notice end
1 January 2026

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14398421
Documents
39
Constraints
12

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.

Source: Torridge

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