Pre application advice
Before contacting South Hams District Council Planning Service for pre-application advice on draft development proposals, we ask you to first:
- Fully investigate the planning history of the site. Does this tell you anything, which may be relevant to your proposals?
- Familiarise yourself with the relevant development and local plans and other supplementary planning documents the Council may have adopted which may be of relevance.
- Visit the site and make a detailed analysis to establish site characteristics, constraints opportunities and the surroundings. Accurate site survey plans and tree condition surveys and wildlife surveys (where applicable) will be required if a planning application is to be submitted. Therefore, these survey plans are likely to be useful in the process of designing a scheme too.
Once you have gone through the above checklist, you should be in a much better position to begin to design your scheme.
You may then wish to approach the council to seek advice from a planning officer.
Informal verbal advice.
You may obtain basic verbal advice on the principle of a development proposal, by contacting our Duty Planner on 01803 861463 and between 9.00am and 1pm Monday to Friday.
Written advice
We ask that you put your request in writing and that you include any plans/drawings and photographs that adequately describe your proposal. This will enable the most appropriate officer to be selected to handle the matter.
First and foremost, the service to be offered is for the provision of advice, it is not an approval service. It will aim to give applicants and developers very clear advice about whether the Council will recommend approval for a scheme, and how it may need to change to be supported by a recommendation.
The process would commence with a preliminary scoping meeting or other discussion when officers would explain the charges (with the exception of proposals falling within Class F above) and process and give initial thoughts about the proposal. We would also need to establish the obligations of the user on the quality of information that would be needed to enable an informed opinion on the scheme to be reached.
If you decide to continue with the pre-application service we would then expect the user to submit the relevant fee (if required) and any plans, documents and information discussed and agreed at the scoping meeting
Pre application enquiry form, guidance and relevant charges
[MS word document] Pre application enquiry form, guidance and scale of relevant charges
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Please remember you may also need to contact the Building Control Partnership as building regulatiions may be required for any works you wish to carry out.
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Building Control - Making an Application - Forms and Fees
Applications can be made for Full Plans Submissions, Building Notices and Regularisations. You can post your application to us, deliver it by hand or submit it electronically. Please note from 1st April, all applications should be submitted to our Newton Abbot Office with any cheques being made payable to Teignbridge District Council.
Online plans submissions - Devon Building Control Partnership through BC Forms enabling customers to submit Building Regulations Applications on-line.
This service is free and works with all CAD applications. It will eliminate the need to send multiple paper plans and is available 24 hours a day 7 days a week.
All applications should be submitted to our Newton Abbot Office with any cheques being made payable to Teignbridge District Council and sent to:
Teignbridge District Council
Devon Building Control Partnership
Forde House
Brunel Road
Newton Abbot
Devon TQ12 4XX
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Further information on the planning system is available from the Planning Portal.
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