Burdon Grange Care Home Burdon Lane Highampton EX21 5LX Data via plota.co.uk

2168/26/FUL - Full Planning Application Within Consultation Period

Proposal

Retention of one unit of care accommodation and erection of one unit of care accommodation (Use Class C2) (part retrospective) Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
4 Aug 2026
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Validated
15 Sept 2026
Decision
Expected by 10 Nov 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision around 10 Nov 2026, from West Devon's recent full applications.

Comments are open until 22 Oct 2026

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Site constraints 5

1 listed building within 150 m of the postcode pin
Nearest: Burdon Grange, Grade II, about 1 m from the postcode pin
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.
Historic England ↗
Agricultural land, grade 4
Poor quality farmland, not best and most versatile. 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) agrees.
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 Enhancement Zone 2
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
Radon affected area, class 2; Nature improvement area: Northern Devon.
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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Important details

Council
West Devon
Application type
Full Planning Application
Postcode
EX21 5LX
Received
4 Aug 2026
Validated
15 Sept 2026
Ward
Hatherleigh
Parish
Highampton
Case officer
Show
Applicant
Show
Agent
R A Rowe Architects

Decision outlook

Day 24 of the 56-day target. West Devon usually decides full applications by day 56.

Day 2432 days to the 56-day target
57%decided within 8 weeks
86%approved
89decided in the last year

Plota live figures for full applications decided by West Devon in the last twelve months, from validation. West Devon decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Consultation
17 Sept 2026
Comments by
22 Oct 2026