River View Bidna Lane Northam Bideford Devon EX39 1NU
Refused on 16 January 2025
Council decision: Application RefusedPlanning committee
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Proposal
Retrospective creation of vehicular access, including installation of gates, wall, fence, and hedgebank; the partial removal of the unauthorised boundary wall and fencing; closing of the existing vehicular access; and associated works, including landscaping (Affecting a public right of way)
- Received
- 13 November 2024
- Decision level
- Planning committee
- Public comments
- 6
- Council
- Torridge District Council
- Ward
- Appledore
- ReceivedReceived13 Nov
- ValidatedValidated25 Nov
- Consult.Consultation20 Dec
- TargetTarget Date17 Dec
- DecidedDecided16 Jan
Decided in 52 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application at River View Bidna Lane Northam Bideford Devon EX39 1NU. Torridge has handled 2,880 applications of this type. This one was decided in 64 days, 8 days longer than Torridge's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 17 applications across Appledore. 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 1NU
- Application type
- Full Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Northam
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 25 November 2024
- Consultation expiry
- 28 December 2024
- Consultation start
- 16 January 2025
- Consultation end
- 20 December 2024
- Neighbour consultation start
- 8 January 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 20 December 2024
- Last date for comments
- 28 December 2024
- Target decision date
- 17 December 2024
- Committee meeting
- 16 January 2025
- Permission expires
- 16 January 2028
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- 1 Enterprise Road Roundswell Barnstaple EX31 3YB
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 22 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 4 December 2024
- Advertisement expiry
- 28 December 2024
- Site notice start
- 29 November 2024
- Site notice end
- 23 December 2024
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-13543483
- Documents
- 26
- Constraints
- 14
Site constraints
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.
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Source: Torridge
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