Block Management in Bovey Tracey
Block, estate and leasehold management for Bovey Tracey. Compliance is tracked against Teignbridge District Council and the county above it.
Managing a Block in Bovey Tracey at a Glance
- Local authority
- Teignbridge District Council
- Authority type
- District, under the county council
- Building control
- Teignbridge District Council Building Control
- County
- Devon
- Fire and rescue service
- Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service
- Water and sewerage
- South West Water
- Setting
- Inland
Who You Deal with in Bovey Tracey
A block in Bovey Tracey deals with Teignbridge District Council for building control and planning, with the county council above it. Fire safety in the common parts is enforced by Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service. Communal water and sewerage is South West Water.
The Residential Stock in Bovey Tracey
Low for a town of this size and unusually conversion-heavy within that. At the 2021 Census 324 of the 3,670 households in the Bovey ward were flats, 8.8 per cent, and only 170 of those were purpose-built. Seventy-one were in a converted or shared house, 45 in another converted building and 38 over commercial premises, so more than half the flats in the ward are in buildings not designed as flats.
Flood Risk in Bovey Tracey
Fluvial, on the River Bovey. The Environment Agency's warning area for the Bovey at Bovey Tracey and Heathfield names St John's Lane, Station Road, Newton Road, Brook Close and Waterside, and a second area covers the reach from North Bovey down to the town at Drakeford Bridge. The whole sits inside the River Teign alert area.
A mapped zone changes what a building costs to insurance and what a buyer's solicitor asks for in the management pack.
Conservation Areas and Listed Buildings in Bovey Tracey
The parish neighbourhood plan records three conservation areas, 105 listed structures and four scheduled monuments. Historic England holds polygons for two of them, the Town Centre and Mary Street area designated on 10 December 1976 and revised in May 2008, and Pottery Road designated in 2010. Inside the town centre area are 47 listed entries, one of them grade I and five grade II star.
Consent has to precede the Section 20 specification, not follow it, or leaseholders are consulted on work that cannot lawfully be done as described.
Planning Policy That Affects Flats in Bovey Tracey
Decided by Teignbridge District Council under the Teignbridge Local Plan 2020 to 2040, adopted on 19 May 2026 in place of the 2013 to 2033 plan. Note which authority that is: the town sits on the edge of Dartmoor but outside the National Park boundary, so it is Teignbridge and not the National Park Authority that decides an application here. The Bovey Parish Neighbourhood Plan 2021 to 2033 was made in March 2022 and sits on top.
Worth knowing before a block plans a conversion, a subdivision or a change of use, because it decides whether the scheme is arguable at all, well before the consent question under the lease arises.
Changing Managing Agent in Bovey Tracey
A board does not need a reason to change agent and does not need the outgoing agent's agreement. It needs to follow its own articles and serve whatever notice the management agreement requires. On Bovey Tracey heritage stock the consents history is what most often turns out to be incomplete, and its absence resurfaces later as a planning problem.
See the handover sequence in full, and our fees, which are a fixed annual amount with no commission on contractor work.
Service charge or accounts query? Email accounts@plymouthblockmanagement.com and quote your development and flat number, or .
Bovey Tracey Questions
Which Council Does a Block in Bovey Tracey Deal With?
Teignbridge District Council Building Control. A district council, with the county council above it for county functions.
Who Enforces Fire Safety in the Common Parts in Bovey Tracey?
Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service, as the enforcing authority for the Fire Safety Order.
Who Supplies Water to a Development in Bovey Tracey?
South West Water. A communal supply is the building's contract, not a leaseholder's, so report a loss to common parts through us.
Do We Need Consent for External Works in Bovey Tracey?
On a listed building or in a conservation area, yes, for much that would be permitted elsewhere. Get it before the Section 20 specification, not after.
Nearby Areas
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