Understanding planning · 13 min read
Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · County council
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Devon County Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
3,332 approved · 120 refused · 317 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 11 Feb 1957 to 8 Sept 2026. Most recent record check: 12 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Beacon Hill Bungalow, Canalside Road, Holcombe Rogus, Devon
Received 4 Apr 2007Land at Sowdens Farm, Brampford Speke
Received 14 Sept 2004North Hele Farm, Buckland Brewer
Received Not publishedInstow County Primary School, Instow, Bideford
Received Not publishedWind Milland, St Giles in the Wood
Received Not publishedHollowtree Road, Barnstaple
Received Not publishedShirwell Primary School, School Lane, Shirwell, EX31 4JT
Received 20 Jan 2009Land adjacent to, Lee Bridge, Mortehoe
Received Not publishedExeter Central Library, Castle Street, Exeter, EX4 3PQ
Received 4 Jul 2013Teign School, Chudleigh Road, Kingsteignton, Newton Abbot, TQ12 3JG
Received 9 Aug 2010Stokenham Area Primary School, Kingsbridge, TQ7 2SJ
Received 21 Dec 2005Depot, Mill Road, Barnstaple
Received 24 Jul 1990Wywurree, Addison Road, Newton Abbot
Received Not publishedMarket House, South Molton
Received 25 Oct 1988Passage House Inn to Bishopsteignton
Received 11 Aug 2016Beam Quarry, Torrington, EX38 8JF
Received 7 Jul 1998Sycamore Centre, Mount Pleasant Road, Exeter, EX4 7AE
Received 20 Jun 2006Totnes Waste Water Treatment Facility, Newton Road, Totnes, TQ9 6LS
Received 15 Mar 2011Bishop Tawton C.P. School, Bishops Tawton, Barnstaple
Received Not publishedSWM Bideford, Adjavin Lane, Bideford, Devon, EX39 3QU
Received 27 Aug 200819a & 19c Alexandra Road, Barnstaple
Received 6 Aug 1991From, Anderton Lane, Whitchurch to Grenofen, Tavistock
Received 27 Apr 2005The Kings School, Ottery St Mary
Received 1 Apr 2008Ottery St Mary Primary School, Longdogs Lane, Ottery St Mary
Received 15 Nov 2007Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Devon County Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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