Block Management in Braunton
Where the River Caen meets the tidal estuary at Velator, two warning areas overlap.
Braunton's residents' management companies, RTM companies and freeholders can hand us the running of their blocks, estates and leases. The River Caen warning area covers 11.24 per cent of the built-up area, naming Caen Street, Chapel Street and South Street, and a separate tidal area takes in Velator and Wrafton. The conservation area grew from about six hectares to about 23 in 2011.
What We Would Put First for a Block in Braunton
Place Flood Cover Street by Street
The Caen warning names Stony Bridge, Deans Bridge, Chaloner's Road, Caen Street, Chapel Street, South Street and Station Road, and the tidal area names Braunton Marsh, Velator and Wrafton. We would disclose the block's exact warning area when placing insurance.
InsuranceCheck the Extended Conservation Boundary
The 2011 review adopted eight extensions, taking in North Street and Silver Street up to Maynes Orchard. For a block on those streets we would confirm the current boundary and obtain consents before specifying windows, roofs or other external works.
ConsentsTest Major Works Against the Neighbourhood Plan
The Braunton Parish Neighbourhood Plan, made on 4 October 2023, adds a town-level policy layer over the North Devon and Torridge Local Plan. We would check any Section 20 scheme needing permission against both before consultation begins.
Major works and Section 20Recommend Radon Measurement
Six of Braunton's nine squares are class 4, at 5 to 10 per cent of homes at or above the action level, and three are class 2. We would recommend measurement in ground-floor communal areas and keep the result on the compliance record.
ComplianceManaging a Block in Braunton at a Glance
- Local authority
- North Devon Council
- Authority type
- District, under the county council
- Building control
- North Devon Council Building Control
- County
- Devon
- Fire and rescue service
- Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service
- Water and sewerage
- South West Water
- Setting
- Inland
What It Costs to Move a Block in Braunton to Us
Management is a fixed annual fee, quoted for the building and agreed before we start. We take no commission and no third-party incentives, so the fee is the whole of what we earn from the building. Taking a block on carries a one-off start-up fee, set by size:
| Block size | Fee |
|---|---|
| Start-up fee, up to 10 units | £420.00 |
| Start-up fee, up to 25 units | £540.00 |
| Start-up fee, 50 units and above | £660.00 |
Taken from our published Additional Services price list, PBM Form #01-27 rev.6, effective 23 June 2025. All fees quoted are inclusive of VAT. See the full price list and how a handover works.
Fluvial and Tidal Warnings Overlap Only at Velator
Both fluvial and tidal. The Environment Agency's warning area for the River Caen at Braunton names Stony Bridge, Deans Bridge, Chaloner's Road, Caen Street, Chapel Street, South Street, Station Road and Velator. Separately the Taw and Torridge estuary tidal area takes in Braunton Marsh, Velator, Wrafton and Chivenor. The Caen is treated as a fluvial source through the village and joins the estuary at Velator, which is why the two areas overlap there and nowhere else. Braunton has the strongest flood containment of any town covered in this deepening pass, and it is exposed both fluvially and tidally with both confirmed by polygon rather than proximity. The River Caen warning area at Braunton covers 11.24 per cent of the built-up area, and half of the flood area itself lies inside the town; it names Stony Bridge, Deans Bridge, Chaloner's Road, Caen Street, Chapel Street, South Street, Station Road and the Velator areas. Separately the tidal Taw Torridge estuary area covers 1.89 per cent and names Braunton Marsh, Velator and Wrafton. Above both, the Barnstaple and Braunton alert covers 15.69 per cent, the largest alert footprint of the group. The north Devon coast area adds 2.29 per cent. No named, dated or costed scheme is published.
Conversions Outnumber Purpose-Built Flats in Braunton East
Small, and split unusually between the two wards. At the 2021 Census 163 of the 2,077 households in Braunton East were flats and only 42 of those were purpose-built, with 58 in a converted or shared house, making it one of the rare wards where conversions outnumber purpose-built flats. Braunton West and Georgeham runs the other way: 191 flats of 2,092 households, 147 of them purpose-built. The town is split across two wards which together reach out to the coast at Croyde and Georgeham and are far larger than the settlement. Narrowing to the 22 census output areas inside the built-up area gives 2,979 households, 71 per cent of the two-ward total, of which 177 are in purpose-built blocks, 5.94 per cent, 61 in a converted or shared house, 19 in another converted building and 47 over commercial premises, with 68 caravans or temporary structures. The two wards differ sharply on flats, at 2.02 and 7.03 per cent, so neither on its own describes the town.
A 2011 Review Nearly Quadrupled the Conservation Area
One area, designated in 1973 and extended in 2011 from about six hectares to about 23, a near fourfold increase that took in North Street rather than creating a second area. It is now the third largest conservation area in the district. The council's own appraisal counts 37 listed buildings inside the current boundary, one grade I and three grade II star, against 24 inside the pre-2011 boundary. One conservation area, first designated in 1973 and given its first boundary change in May 2011, and the scale of that change is the notable part: the area grew from about six hectares at designation to about 23 hectares, an increase of 380 per cent, making it the third largest of North Devon's 41 conservation areas. Eight separate extensions were adopted in that review, including Silver Street north up to Maynes Orchard and a small extension for the Grade II listed Bowens. The council considered creating a second, separate conservation area for North Street and decided against it, extending the existing one instead because the character parallels were close. Both a character appraisal and a management plan are published.
The council publishes a count for the conservation area and a before and after table for the 2011 extensions: 37 listed buildings in the area, of which one is Grade I, three Grade II* and 33 Grade II, the Grade II* count having risen from two and the Grade II from 21. Counting entries inside the statistical built-up area gives 40, with the same grade profile, so unusually the council figure and the computed one sit very close together here. The Grade I is the Church of St Brannock, and the Grade II* entries are Broadgate, Church House and Town Farm. The council also records that there are no scheduled monuments inside the conservation area, the nearest being the Castle at Knowle 900 metres to the north.
No Square over Braunton Reaches Class 5 Or 6
Braunton has the lowest peak radon of the towns covered in this pass, and the gap is large. Of its nine one-kilometre squares, six are class 4 at 5 to 10 per cent of homes at or above the action level and three are class 2 at 1 to 3 per cent. No square reaches class 5 or 6. Its highest square is therefore below the lowest square in St Just, where every square exceeds 30 per cent, which is the difference between the Devonian sedimentary sequence here and the Penwith granite there.
A Made Neighbourhood Plan with 90.1 Per Cent Support
Decided under the joint North Devon and Torridge Local Plan 2011 to 2031. The Braunton Neighbourhood Plan was made on 4 October 2023 after a referendum on 7 September 2023 in which 90.1 per cent voted in favour, so there is a made town-level policy layer here that most Devon towns of this size do not have. The council's published list of 16 Article 4 directions in the district does not include Braunton. Decided under the North Devon and Torridge Local Plan 2011 to 2031, jointly adopted by the two councils in 2018; the exact day is not published. The Braunton Parish Neighbourhood Plan was made on 4 October 2023, and unusually for the towns covered here the full referendum record is published: the poll was held on 7 September 2023 with an electorate of 6,428, 1,156 ballot papers issued and no spoilt papers, giving a turnout of 17.9 per cent, and it was carried by 1,042 votes to 114, which the council puts at 90.1 per cent in favour. The examiner was Andrew Ashcroft. There is no Article 4 direction at Braunton, and this is a positive verification rather than an absence of data: North Devon publishes a full index of its 17 directions, covering places from Codden Hill and Combe Martin to Woolacombe and Yelland, and Braunton is not among them.
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Braunton Questions
What Does the Shoreline Management Plan Say About Braunton?
The two policy units naming Braunton, West Ashford to Braunton on the east bank of the Caen and Braunton to Horsey Island on the west bank, are hold the line for the first epoch, managed realignment for the middle epoch, and hold the line again for the long term. Braunton Burrows and Saunton Down are no active intervention across all three epochs.
Is There an Article 4 Direction in Braunton?
No, and this is a positive verification rather than a gap in the data. North Devon publishes a full index of its Article 4 directions, covering places from Codden Hill and Combe Martin to Woolacombe and Yelland, and Braunton is not among them. Works are decided under the North Devon and Torridge Local Plan and the Braunton Parish Neighbourhood Plan made on 4 October 2023.
Is Radon as High in Braunton as Further West in Cornwall?
No. Of Braunton's nine one-kilometre squares, six are class 4 at 5 to 10 per cent of homes at or above the action level and three are class 2 at 1 to 3 per cent. None reaches class 5 or 6. Its highest square is below the lowest square in St Just, reflecting the Devonian sedimentary rock here rather than granite.
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