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. One figure defines this town's housing stock and it is not flats. Narrowing to the 20 census output areas inside the built-up area gives 2,910 households, of which 237 are caravans or other mobile or temporary structures, 8.14 per cent, by a wide margin the highest of the towns covered in this pass and against 0.07 per cent at Axminster and none at all at St Just. Every one of the ward's 237 such households falls inside the built-up area, so this is the town rather than its rural surroundings. Conversely Bovey Tracey has the lowest purpose-built flat share of the group at 4.43 per cent, with 62 households in a converted or shared house, 47 in another converted building and 36 over commercial premises.
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. Only two Environment Agency areas touch the town out of seventeen candidates within eight kilometres, and the rest are near it without reaching it. The River Bovey warning area at Bovey Tracey and Heathfield covers 4.85 per cent of the built-up area and names the streets: St John's Lane, Station Road, Newton Road, Brook Close and the Waterside areas. Above it the River Teign alert covers 12.07 per cent. No named, dated or costed scheme is published. One local ground condition is worth knowing from the council's own appraisal, which identifies the ball clay and lignite deposits of the Bovey basin as the formations that most influenced the town's development.
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. Bovey Tracey has two conservation areas rather than one, which is unusual for a town this size: the Town Centre area at 11.36 hectares and the Mary Street area at 0.67 hectares, both designated on 10 December 1976, with the conservation area extended on 19 May 2008. Both have a published character appraisal and, separately, a conservation area management plan, which is a fuller set of documents than most towns covered on this site have. The appraisal explains the shape of the place: the route from Exeter to Plymouth passed through the town entering along East Street and descending to Fore Street to cross the river at Bovey Bridge, while the old route from Moretonhampstead enters along Mary Street.
The council publishes a count for the conservation areas themselves, and it is one Grade I, eight Grade II* and 61 Grade II, seventy in total. Counting entries inside the statistical built-up area instead gives 65, one Grade I, six Grade II* and 58 Grade II; the two figures differ because they measure different boundaries and neither is wrong. The Grade I is the Church of St Peter and St Paul and St Thomas of Canterbury. Two of the Grade II* entries are chest tombs in the churchyard rather than buildings.
Consent has to precede the Section 20 specification, not follow it, or leaseholders are consulted on work that cannot lawfully be done as described.
Radon in Bovey Tracey
Bovey Tracey is the granite-margin town of this group and it reads accordingly. All eleven one-kilometre squares over the built-up area are class 5 or class 6, with six of them in the top band where the published wording is that maximum radon potential is greater than 30 per cent of homes at or above the action level. No square anywhere in the town falls below 10 to 30 per cent. On this measure it sits closer to St Just in west Cornwall than to Axminster or Braunton in its own county.
Nobody's flat includes the plant room or the undercroft, which is why those get overlooked. A three-month test is cheap and the result sits with the compliance record.
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. Two points here are unusual. First, the authority: although part of the parish lies in Dartmoor National Park, the town itself does not. Measuring the park boundary against the built-up area puts 8.90 per cent of it inside the park, and that 8.90 per cent is entirely the western fringe; the town centre at Fore Street and Mary Street are both outside it, and both conservation areas are outside it. So Teignbridge District Council determines applications in the town, and the national park authority only on the western edge. The council's own documents corroborate that, applying its development plan to Bovey Tracey as being outside the park, and naming Ashburton and Buckfastleigh rather than Bovey Tracey as the parishes that had to apply to both authorities. Second, the plan: the Teignbridge Local Plan 2020 to 2040 was formally adopted on 19 May 2026, which makes it the newest local plan governing any town covered on this site, with the legal challenge window closing on 30 June 2026. The Bovey Parish Neighbourhood Plan 2021 to 2033 was made in March 2022; referendum figures are not published. There is no Article 4 direction. The 2011 management plan recommends one, listing window and door replacement, roof alterations including dormers and rooflights, changing roofing material from natural slate, gates, fences and walls, and the removal of architectural details as the things it would bring under control, but that is a proposal and not a made direction and should not be relied on as one.
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.
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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.
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