Car Park Land South Of Underhill Close Lympstone Data via plota.co.uk

Approved 25/1601/OUT

Council

East Devon 6.7/10

Date received

around 4 Aug 2025

Date validated

4 Aug 2025

Description

Outline application for the erection of three detached dwellings (All matters reserved) Data via plota.co.uk

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Last checked 13 Oct 2026, 16:33

Planning committee

Deferred by East Devon Planning Committee on 24 Mar 2026.

Deferred

The parish council, ward councillors and most third-party representations opposed the proposal, citing its location, scale, landscape and traffic effects.
The committee deferred the application to a later date.

Read how the committee decided The proposal, site history, officers’ assessment, consultation responses and committee deferral.

Source: Plota analysis of East Devon's committee minutes of 24 Mar 2026.

Site constraints 5

Agricultural land, grade 2

Best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s), which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 3. The predicted grade is Defra's current estimate; only a site survey settles it.

Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.

Special protection area 202 m away: Exe Estuary

Work nearby can need a habitats assessment.

Harm to a protected site is only accepted where there is no alternative and an overriding public interest.

Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 2

Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.

SSSI 202 m away: Exe Estuary SSSI

Natural England may need consulting, depending on what is proposed.

Sites of special scientific interest are the best wildlife and geological sites in the country. Development likely to harm one is rarely permitted.

Also on the record

1 listed building within 150 m.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 21 October 2026. 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.

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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