Block Management in Bude
Block, estate and leasehold management for Bude. Compliance is tracked against Cornwall Council. Marine-exposed stock is surveyed on a shorter interval and funded from what the surveys find.
Managing a Block in Bude at a Glance
- Local authority
- Cornwall Council
- Authority type
- Unitary
- Building control
- Cornwall Council Building Control
- County
- Cornwall
- Fire and rescue service
- Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service
- Water and sewerage
- South West Water
- Setting
- Coastal
Who You Deal with in Bude
A block in Bude deals with Cornwall Council, a unitary authority, so building control, planning and housing enforcement sit with one body. Fire safety in the common parts is enforced by Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service. Communal water and sewerage is South West Water.
The Residential Stock in Bude
At the 2021 Census 668 of the 2,957 households in the Bude division were flats, 22.6 per cent, of which 399 were purpose-built, 141 in a converted or shared house, 46 in another converted building and 82 over commercial premises. The neighbouring Stratton division is a different picture at 8.5 per cent flats, and notably 121 of its 242 flats are in converted or shared houses, more than are purpose-built.
Coastal Exposure in Bude
Open coast, Atlantic-facing. The town's conservation area sits 150 metres from the shoreline management plan policy unit for Bude Haven and the canal area, which is hold the line in all three epochs, and 200 metres from the Summerleaze beach unit. The Environment Agency's coastal flood warning area for the north Cornwall coast from The Rumps to Hartland Point names Bude and Crooklets alongside Port Isaac and Boscastle.
Metalwork is where coastal exposure shows up first and costs most. The standards put a high-salinity coastal atmosphere in category C5-M, losing over 80 micrometres of steel in year one against 1.3 to 25 inland, so railings, balustrades and fixings on a Bude block are surveyed more often and the reserve fund is modelled on the findings.
Flood Risk in Bude
Both fluvial and open-coast tidal, and unusually for this research there is a completed and costed scheme. The Environment Agency's warning area for the River Neet names Pethericks Mill, The Crescent, the main car park, the Parkhouse Centre, The Strand, The Castle and Vicarage Road; the River Strat area at Stratton names the arts centre, Howells Bridge car park and playground, Bridge Street and The Leat. The Crescent flood defence and river restoration project, a 1.45 million pound scheme, began on 29 August 2023 with completion expected in April 2024, and the agency states it will better protect 22 homes and 15 commercial and community properties on The Crescent and Ergue-Gaberic Way. Separately the Flexbury flood alleviation scheme, a bypass culvert and improved channel, was built in 2010, and the council records a history of flooding from the culverted Berries Avenue stream.
For a block that reaches leaseholders through the insurance premium and excess, and through the management pack when someone sells.
Conservation Areas and Listed Buildings in Bude
Three areas in the parish. Bude itself covers 57.7 hectares and the council's appraisal records it as designated in 1988; Stratton, 13.5 hectares, and Poughill, 17.7 hectares, are both recorded with a status date of 20 November 1974, though their appraisals say 1973, Stratton extended in 1981 and Poughill in 1989. The appraisals publish their own counts: 44 listed buildings and structures in Bude, all grade II except the sea lock, its gates and hand winches and Ebbingford Manor which are grade II star; 34 in Stratton, all grade II except Church House, the old Post Office and the Drangway at grade II star and the church of St Andrew at grade I; and 17 in Poughill including the grade I church and the grade II star Church House. There are no scheduled monuments in Bude or Stratton.
The sequencing is what catches boards out: consent first, then the Section 20 specification. Specify and consult before consent is in hand and the consultation has to be run again.
Planning Policy That Affects Flats in Bude
Decided under the Cornwall Local Plan, with the Bude-Stratton Neighbourhood Development Plan made on 21 June 2017 sitting on top of it. There is one Article 4 direction in the parish, covering 42.9 hectares at Maer Farm north of the town; it is rural land and does not reach the built-up area.
Policy in an adopted plan is not guidance. It is what the application is decided against, and a consent granted under the lease does not substitute for it or vice versa.
Changing Managing Agent in Bude
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 Bude 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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Bude Questions
Which Council Does a Block in Bude Deal With?
Cornwall Council Building Control. One body, so building control, planning and licensing sit together.
Who Enforces Fire Safety in the Common Parts in Bude?
Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service, as the enforcing authority for the Fire Safety Order.
Who Supplies Water to a Development in Bude?
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 Bude?
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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