Dartmoor Lodge, Ashburton, Newton Abbot, Devon, TQ13 7JW

Planning appeal 3360791 at Dartmoor Lodge, Ashburton, Newton Abbot, Devon, TQ13 7JW (Dartmoor) was allowed on 17 September 2025 by Inspector Cahalane R, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether condition No 4 is reasonable and necessary and whether an amended condition allowing music to be played (including by amplified means) would safeguard the living conditions of nearby residents, with particular regard to noise and disturbance.

part retrospective application for demolition of outbuilding and replacement with single storey open air cafe area with covered servery without complying with a condition attached to planning permission Ref 0431/23, dated 13 September 2024

Authority: Dartmoor
Appeal type: minor · Planning Appeal
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: leisure-sport · Other minor developments
Inspector: Cahalane R
Postcode: TQ13 7JW

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether condition No 4 is reasonable and necessary and whether an amended condition allowing music to be played (including by amplified means) would safeguard the living conditions of nearby residents, with particular regard to noise and disturbance
The effect on the natural beauty and tranquillity of the surrounding area within the Dartmoor National Park

What decided it

The noise impact assessment demonstrated that subject to conditions controlling music volume to 37 dB LAeq, 15 min at the nearest residential receptor and restricting operating hours to 12:00-21:00, amplified music could be permitted without causing significant adverse effects on neighbouring residential living conditions or harm to Dartmoor National Park's tranquillity.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies: Strategic Policy 1.1Strategic Policy 1.2Strategic Policy 2.1Strategic Policy 2.6Policy 1.7Policy 5.1

How the Inspector dealt with each one is set out in the app, in order: the development plan, national policy, housing land supply, other considerations and the planning balance, beside the letter.

See how each was applied

The decision letter

Town Planner Pro holds this letter. The Appeals plan opens it and every other letter we hold, all of them searchable, with the main issues and what decided each case picked out. We do not show letters on the free site because they carry people’s names and addresses.

Appeals plan, £15 a month

With an account

What an account adds to this decision

9 other decided appeals within two kilometres of this site. In the app every dot opens its decision, and its letter wherever one was published, and you can draw your own site to see what has been decided around it.AllowedDismissedSplitThis decision

An appeal decision in the app, with the main issues, policies and judgments cited picked out beside the letter — Every letter, there to read. We pick out the main issues, the policies and the judgments cited, so you can work through the letter faster.

Searching the full text of appeal decision letters in the app — Search inside every letter. By words or by meaning, filtered by authority, outcome, appeal type and procedure, with every locatable decision on the map and the Inspector named on each.

Start your free trial

More decisions in Dartmoor

The authority’s record since 2016 · every decision in 2025

Allowed27 January 20253345781
Land at Linhay Hill, Ashburton, New Abbot, Devon, TQ13 7UP
Dismissed11 June 20266001911
Briarcroft, North Bovey, Devon, TQ13 8QZ
Dismissed11 June 20266001910
Briarcroft, North Bovey, Devon, TQ13 8QZ
Dismissed6 May 20263345832
Soda Ash Building, Bovey Tracey, TQ13 9PA
Dismissed1 May 20266000921
Lower Lowton Farm, Lowton Lane, Exeter, EX6 7EN

The main issues, what decided it, the planning balance and the policies and judgments listed as cited are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro and are our summary, not the Inspector’s words; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.