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Agricultural Building At Stoneleigh Farm Shebbear Beaworthy Devon EX21 5QT

1/1027/2024/FULFull ApplicationRefused
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Refused on 8 April 2025

Council decision: Application RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Conversion of existing agricultural buildings to a Welfare Processing Facility

Received
29 November 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
14
Ward
Shebbear And Langtree
  1. Received29 Nov
  2. Validated14 Jan
  3. Consult.19 Apr
  4. Target5 Feb
  5. Decided8 Apr

Decided in 84 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Agricultural Building At Stoneleigh Farm Shebbear Beaworthy Devon EX21 5QT. Torridge has handled 2,880 applications of this type. This one was decided in 130 days, 11 weeks longer than Torridge's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 51 applications across Shebbear And Langtree. We hold 385 applications in total for the EX21 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
EX21 5QT
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Shebbear

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 January 2025
Consultation expiry
19 April 2025
Consultation start
8 April 2025
Consultation end
19 April 2025
Neighbour consultation start
26 March 2025
Neighbour consultation end
27 February 2025
Last date for comments
19 March 2025
Target decision date
5 February 2025
Committee meeting
3 April 2025
Permission expires
8 April 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent address
West Hele Buckland Brewer Bideford EX39 5LZ

Planning decision

Statutory period
22 days

Publicity

Last advertised
22 January 2025
Advertisement expiry
22 January 2025
Site notice start
27 January 2025
Site notice end
20 February 2025

Appeal history

6000604
Dismissed
Type: Planning AppealProcedure: Written RepresentationsDecision: 13 November 2025Dev Type: Minor offices/R&D/light industryReason: refused

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13571555
Documents
37
Constraints
6

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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