Planning application
9 Castle Cottages Castle Lane Woodbury EX5 1HZ
Works: Windows or glazing
Still open. Anyone can comment while the consultation period runs, and comments go to the council rather than to us.
Proposal
Proposed replacement of doors and windows on the front and rear of the property.
As published by the council, reference 26/0174/FUL
Application record
- Reference
- 26/0174/FUL
- Type
- Full Application
- Status
- Awaiting decision
- Received
- 11 Feb 2026
- Validated
- 11 Feb 2026
- Ward
- Woodbury And Lympstone
- Parish
- Woodbury
- Postcode
- EX5 1HZ
Timeline
Dates from the published record
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11 Feb 2026
Received by East Devon
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26 Jul 2026
Added to PlanIndex
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Decision
Awaiting decision
Decision expected by 8 April 2026, 8 weeks from validation under the statutory target for most applications. Extensions of time are common and are agreed case by case.
East Devon took a median of 42 days over the applications it decided in the last year.
Related applications
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1 later application on the register refers to this one:
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26/1696/DOC Awaiting decision
9 Castle Cottages Castle Lane Woodbury Devon EX5 1HZ
Discharge of conditions for 26/0174/FUL : Condition 3 (windows)
Who's behind it
Company information only, from the register and Companies House
Value Optimised Retrofit Ltd Agent, registered in Bristol
Active · incorporated 2021 · Bristol
16 applications on PlanIndex · across 5 councils · 86% granted
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Plans, drawings, consultee responses and the officer's report
5 documents on file for this application
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This application is with East Devon for determination, against a statutory target of eight weeks. Over the last year East Devon decided full applications in a median of 50 days. More in our guide to how long planning decisions take.
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