Harford Barn, West Coombsehead Farm, Harford, Ivybridge, PL21 0JG Data via plota.co.uk

Pending 0219/26 - Certificate of Lawfulness for an existing use

Council

Dartmoor

Date received

9 Jul 2026

Postcode

PL21 0JG

Type

Certificate of Lawfulness for an existing use

Description

Conversion and change of use of part bunkhouse to residential dwelling, known as Harford Barn Data via plota.co.uk

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Last checked 12 Sept 2026, 06:07

Decision outlook

Plota predicted a decision around 14 Sept 2026; it is now day 67.

Day 67, past the statutory target. 97% of lawful development certificates in Dartmoor are decided within thirteen weeks, which runs to 8 Oct 2026; extensions of time are common, and the council need not decide on the day. Last seen undecided on 24 Aug 2026.

predicted

Day 6711 days past the 56-day target

84%decided within 8 weeks

85%approved

19,862decided in the last year

Plota live figures for lawful development certificates decided across the UK in the last twelve months, from validation; too few recent lawful development certificates in Dartmoor to go on. Dartmoor decision record →

Site constraints 3

Dartmoor National Park

The park authority decides applications here. Great weight to conserving the landscape; major development restricted.

Landscape, scenic beauty and wildlife carry great weight, and major development is only allowed in exceptional circumstances.

Agricultural land, grade 4

Poor quality farmland, not best and most versatile. Predicted from the national soil map. The older provisional map, 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.

Habitat network: Network Expansion Zone

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

Not affected

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

Checked on 11 September 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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