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3627/25/AGR - Agricultural Determination Approved

Proposal

Application to determine if prior approval is required for a proposed straw & machinery storage building measuring 24.538m (L) x 12.19m (B) x 7.81m height to ridge Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 7 Oct 2026, 06:33

Application progress

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Received

10 Dec 2025

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Approved

17 Dec 2025

Approved on 17 Dec 2025 · Last checked 3 Oct 2026

Documents

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Site constraints 3

Agricultural land, grade 3b

Not 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 6

An estimated 30% or more 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 ↗

Not affected

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

Checked on 6 October 2026. 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: Agricultural Determination
Postcode: EX20 4PG
Received: 10 Dec 2025
Validated: 10 Dec 2025
Ward: Bridestowe
Parish: Coryton
Case officer: Show
Decision: Prior Approval Not Required
Decision date: 17 Dec 2025
Applicant: Show
Agent: Roundacre Design Services

How this decision compares

Decided in 7 days from validation, 23 days faster than West Devon's median of 30 for prior approvals. Approved, as 61% of prior approvals here are.

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61%approved

133decided in the last year

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