Land At Limebury Farm Parkham Devon
Approved on 24 February 2026
Council decision: Application ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Construction of a 6.5 MW solar farm including substations, inverters, maintenance tracks, security fencing and cameras (Variation of conditions 2 & 8 of planning approval 1/1096/2022/FULM)
- Received
- 19 November 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 6
- Council
- Torridge District Council
- Ward
- Hartland
- ReceivedReceived19 Nov
- ValidatedValidated19 Nov
- Consult.Consultation13 Dec
- TargetTarget Date11 Dec
- DecidedDecided24 Feb
Decided in 97 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a solar installation at Land At Limebury Farm Parkham Devon. Torridge has handled 2,880 applications of this type. This one was decided in 97 days, 6 weeks longer than Torridge's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 70 applications across Hartland.
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
- Application type
- Full Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Parkham
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 19 November 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 22 December 2025
- Consultation start
- 24 February 2026
- Consultation end
- 13 December 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 19 November 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 13 December 2025
- Last date for comments
- 22 December 2025
- Target decision date
- 11 December 2025
- Permission expires
- 24 February 2029
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- 41-50 Futura Park Aspinall Way Middlebrook Bolton BL6 6SU
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 22 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 26 November 2025
- Advertisement expiry
- 20 December 2025
- Site notice start
- 28 November 2025
- Site notice end
- 22 December 2025
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14396311
- Documents
- 25
- Constraints
- 11
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- 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.
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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.
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© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.
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