Bishops Tawton, Barnstaple

A most attractive, south sloping roadside field of about 2.79 acres with various stables/loose boxes, and with the possibility of some development potential, subject to planning.

A most attractive, south sloping roadside field of about 2.79 acres with various stables/loose boxes, and with the possibility of some development potential, subject to planning. There have recently been 3 houses built acrooss the lane.

The field is set to the edge of the very popular village of Bishops Tawton, itself overlooking the River Taw Valley and centred around its ancient parish church with a variety of traditional and modern housing, busy village Inn and village primary school.

Barnstaple, the ancient borough and administrative centre for North Devon with a wide variety of business and leisure facilities is situated just 2 miles to the north where there is a railway station on the sprinter train line that runs south to the cathedral city of Exeter.

The Local Development Plan (for the purposes of assessing planning applications) comprises of the North Devon and Torridge Local Plan, adopted 29.10.18. A review of the Local Plan is outstanding, since October 2023. The settlement of Bishop’s Tawton has been identified in the adopted 2018 Local Plan as a sustainable settlement, allocated 36 additional dwellings.
The site is within the parish of Bishop’s Tawton. No Neighbourhood Plan has been made, with no application to the District Council publicised to be designated.

The western part of the site, comprising of stables, hard surfaced yard and vehicular access, have the potential to comprise of ‘previously developed land’, according to central governments’ planning guidance.

The whole site benefits from an assessment in the North Devon District Council 2016 SHLAA (Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment) indicating that the site could provide possible residential development, of up to 16 additional dwellings (site reference SHA/BTA/391). The report can be provided upon request ,from Phillips Smith & Dunn or sourced independently from the North Devon District Council website.