Development Site At Sx 810 395 (Middlecombe Barn) Beeson Data via plota.co.uk

2677/25/FUL - Full Planning Application Approved

Proposal

Barn conversion to residential dwelling Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 12 Oct 2026, 22:07

Application progress

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Received

9 Sept 2025

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Approved

16 Jan 2026

Approved on 16 Jan 2026 · Last checked 12 Oct 2026

Planning committee

Decided by South Hams Development Management Committee on 15 Jan 2026.

Approved

As officers recommended.

No officer report was published for this decision; this summary is from the committee minutes.

Officers said the conversion overcame a previous appeal dismissal, met design guidance and had acceptable landscape impact due to its obscured location.
An objector said the narrow track could not sustain vehicle traffic and the development would harm wildlife, dark skies and the landscape.
The Parish Council and ward member objected that the site remained unsustainable, but the committee supported the officer's recommendation of conditional approval.

Read how the committee decided The objections over an isolated location and wildlife, the appeal history, and the vote to approve.

Source: Plota analysis of South Hams's committee minutes of 15 Jan 2026.

Documents 32

Decision & officer reports 10

Statements & assessments 10

Site constraints 7

South Devon National Landscape

Great weight to conserving the landscape; major development restricted.

Previously an area of outstanding natural beauty, which is still the designation in law. Since 2023 authorities must seek to further its purpose, not merely have regard to it.

Heritage coast: South Devon

A defined stretch of undeveloped coastline.

Development inconsistent with keeping the coast undeveloped is resisted.

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 2. 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 Enhancement Zone 1

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 ↗

2 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin

Nearest: Orchard Cottage, Grade II, about 58 m from the postcode pin · 2 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 2 with distances

58 mOrchard CottageGrade II
145 mBeeson FarmhouseGrade II

Historic England ↗

Also on the record

Priority habitat about 34 m away: Traditional orchard.

Not affected

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

Checked on 17 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: South Hams
Application type: Full Planning Application
Received: 9 Sept 2025
Validated: 9 Sept 2025
Ward: Stokenham
Parish: Stokenham
Case officer: Show
Decision: Conditional Approval
Decision date: 16 Jan 2026
Applicant: Show
Agent: Andrew Lethbridge Associates

How this decision compares

Decided in 129 days from validation, 73 days slower than South Hams's median of 56 for full applications. Approved, as 90% of full applications here are.

This one129d

Council56d

UK56d

54%decided within 8 weeks

90%approved

277decided in the last year

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

Consultation & key dates

Consultation: 16 Sept 2025
Comments by: 21 Oct 2025
Committee: 15 Jan 2026

South Hams

Planning Authority Score

6.3/10

Average

#89 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Householder decisions

South Hams is faster than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #97 out of 296. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (92%) than the national average (90%).

Faster than most councils

for householder decisions

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance

South Hams decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

90%

Overall approval rate

Above avg (87%) #116 of 296

92%

Householder approved

Above avg (90%) #165 of 296

73%

Decided in 8 weeks

Above avg (63%) #97 of 296

32%

Extended time limit

Below avg (41%) #69 of 296

72%

Minor dwellings approved

130 decided (1-9 homes)

70%

Major dwellings approved

10 decided (10+ homes)

81%

Change of use approved

26 decided

1,018

Total decisions

101 refused in the year to March 2026