Recreation Field Pavilion Lewdown EX20 4JX Data via plota.co.uk

3676/25/CLP - Certificate of Lawfulness for Proposed Use Approved

Proposal

Certificate of lawfulness for proposed new play area including equipment Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
16 Dec 2025
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Validated
27 Jan 2026
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Approved
27 Feb 2026

Approved on 27 Feb 2026 · Last checked 8 Sept 2026

Site constraints 7

16 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin
Nearest: Church View, Grade II, about 20 m from the postcode pin · 1 Grade I, 15 Grade II
The site itself is not listed. Listed building consent is needed for work that affects the special interest of a listed building, inside or out, on top of planning permission. Setting can be a consideration for buildings nearby; there is no fixed radius.
Show all 16 with distances
Historic England ↗
Agricultural land, grade 3a
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 4. 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.
Radon affected area, class 5
An estimated 10 to 30% of homes reach the radon action level. Indicative for the 1 km square, which takes the highest class found in it; a radon test gives the answer for a building.
From the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency indicative atlas. Under building regulations, as the BRE guide BR 211 (2023) sets out, new buildings and extensions need basic radon protection from class 3 in England and Wales and from class 2 in Scotland, and full protection from class 5. The class at the site itself, from the detailed BGS map, decides which.
UKHSA radon ↗
Conservation area about 8 m away: Bratton Clovelly
The edge of the area; work outside it can still affect its setting.
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
Heritage at risk about 90 m away: Church of St Mary; Priority habitat about 29 m away: Deciduous woodland.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · 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, the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency (radon, contains BGS materials © UKRI) 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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Council
West Devon
Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness for Proposed Use
Postcode
EX20 4JX
Received
16 Dec 2025
Validated
27 Jan 2026
Ward
Bridestowe
Parish
Lewtrenchard
Case officer
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Decision
Approved
Decision date
27 Feb 2026
Applicant
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Decided in 31 days from validation, 13 days faster than West Devon's median of 44 for lawful development certificates. Approved, as 97% of lawful development certificates here are.

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