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Riverside Flats Lower Meddon Street Bideford Devon EX39 2ET

1/0891/2022/FULFull ApplicationWithdrawn
Full

Withdrawn on 22 May 2023

Council decision: Application Withdrawn

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Change of use to three flats and alterations

Received
26 August 2022
Ward
Bideford North
  1. Received26 Aug
  2. Validated8 Nov
  3. Consult.17 May
  4. Target30 Nov
  5. Decided22 May

Decided in 195 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Riverside Flats Lower Meddon Street Bideford Devon EX39 2ET. Torridge has handled 2,880 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 269 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. The site is in the Bideford conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 28 applications across Bideford North. 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 2ET
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bideford

Planning application dates

Date validated
8 November 2022
Consultation expiry
17 May 2023
Consultation start
22 May 2023
Consultation end
17 May 2023
Neighbour consultation start
28 November 2022
Neighbour consultation end
22 December 2022
Last date for comments
17 May 2023
Target decision date
30 November 2022
Permission expires
22 May 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
22 days

Publicity

Last advertised
7 December 2022
Advertisement expiry
31 December 2022
Site notice start
1 December 2022
Site notice end
25 December 2022

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
39
Constraints
11

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Conservation area: Bideford
  • Listed building: Grade II: Hampton TerraceOn or next to this site
  • 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.

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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