Longbrook Cottage Longbrook Lane Lympstone Devon EX8 5LJ Data via plota.co.uk

26/0851/CPL - Certificate Proposed Lawful Use/Dev Approved

Proposal

Certificate of lawful development for a proposed outbuilding. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
5 May 2026
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Approved
8 May 2026

Approved on 8 May 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 6 Jul 2026

Site constraints 6

Flood zone 3, rivers and sea
High chance: a 1 in 100 or greater annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 from the sea. Any development here needs a flood risk assessment. Defences are not counted.
The Environment Agency flood map for planning. Homes in zone 3 must also pass the sequential test. Surface water flooding is a separate map.
Flood map ↗
Lympstone conservation area
Demolition needs planning permission and permitted development is restricted.
The council must give weight to preserving or enhancing the area's character and appearance. Not every council has published its boundaries as open data.
Council document ↗
Also on the record
4 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin; Flood defence about 15 m from the postcode pin (engineered high ground, designed for a 1 in 100 year flood); Inside the Lympstone built-up area; Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) had this area as grade 3, but it predates the buildings here and the current map does not class it as farmland.
Not affected
Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

Sales history 1

Last sold for £450,000 in December 2020. Detached house, freehold.

4 December 2020£450,000

Sale prices from HM Land Registry's price paid record, matched to this application by its address.

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Important details

Council
East Devon
Application type
Certificate Proposed Lawful Use/Dev
Postcode
EX8 5LJ
Received
5 May 2026
Validated
5 May 2026
Ward
Woodbury And Lympstone
Parish
Lympstone
Decision
CPL Approve Part 1
Decision date
8 May 2026
Decision level
Delegated Decision
Applicant
Show
Agent
Studio Tor Architecture

How this decision compares

Decided in 3 days from validation, 45 days faster than East Devon's median of 48 for extensions. Approved, as 95% of extensions here are.

74%decided within 8 weeks
95%approved
573decided in the last year

Plota live figures for extensions decided by East Devon in the last twelve months, from validation. East Devon decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-14901110
Planning Portal ref
PP-14901110
Env. assessment
No
East Devon
Planning Authority Score
6.7/10
Good
#72 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

East Devon ranks #103 out of 296 councils for householder decision speed. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (94%) than the national average (90%).

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
East Devon decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
88%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #152 of 296
94%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #104 of 296
72%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #103 of 296
34%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #86 of 296
63%
Minor dwellings approved
168 decided (1-9 homes)
74%
Major dwellings approved
23 decided (10+ homes)
88%
Change of use approved
25 decided
1,321
Total decisions
157 refused in the year to March 2026

Sale prices: Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.