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3789/25/CCN - Caravan Club Notification Refused

Proposal

Caravan Club Notification of proposed exempted campsite to accommodate a temporary, small and low key Glamping site consisting of 3 tents and up to 5 shepherd's huts Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

✓
Received
16 Dec 2025
✗
Refused
16 Jan 2026
Appeal
Not lodged

Refused on 16 Jan 2026 · Last checked 3 Oct 2026

Documents

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Site constraints 8

18 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin
Nearest: The Cottage, Grade II, about 25 m from the postcode pin · 18 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.
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Historic England ↗
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.
Public footpath about 2 m away
Matters where it crosses or adjoins the site: obstructing a path without a diversion order is an offence, and work cannot start until the order is confirmed.
Compiled from highway authority data, not the legal definitive map. A few authorities have not published, so no path shown is not proof there is none.
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 ↗
Also on the record
Scheduled monument about 204 m away: Animal pound 50m south west of All Saint's Church; Inside the Malborough built-up area; Heritage coast about 69 m away: South Devon; Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) had this area as grade 3, but it predates the buildings here and the current map does not class it as farmland.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt

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
Caravan Club Notification
Received
16 Dec 2025
Validated
16 Dec 2025
Ward
Salcombe & Thurlestone
Parish
Salcombe, Malborough
Case officer
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Decision
Refusal
Decision date
16 Jan 2026
Applicant
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How this decision compares

Decided in 31 days from validation, 25 days faster than South Hams's median of 56 for full applications. Refused, as 10% of full applications here are.

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 →

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
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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
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings