Block Management in Budleigh Salterton
Block, estate and leasehold management for Budleigh Salterton. Compliance is tracked against East Devon District Council and the county above it. Marine-exposed stock is surveyed on a shorter interval and funded from what the surveys find.
Managing a Block in Budleigh Salterton at a Glance
- Local authority
- East Devon District Council
- Authority type
- District, under the county council
- Building control
- East Devon District Council Building Control
- County
- Devon
- Fire and rescue service
- Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service
- Water and sewerage
- South West Water
- Setting
- Coastal
Who You Deal with in Budleigh Salterton
A block in Budleigh Salterton deals with East Devon 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 Budleigh Salterton
Read the geography before the numbers. The parish sits entirely inside the Budleigh and Raleigh ward, but is only about a tenth of that ward's area, the rest taking in East Budleigh, Otterton and open country, and no tighter Census geography is published. Across that ward 445 of 3,601 households were in purpose-built blocks of flats at the 2021 Census, with 184 in a converted or shared house, which is the highest converted-house count of any single ward in this research, plus 34 in another converted building and 48 over commercial premises.
Coastal Exposure in Budleigh Salterton
Open coast, and the designations confirm it from three directions. The district council describes the town as sitting in the East Devon National Landscape on the World Heritage Jurassic Coast with two miles of pebble beach. The national planning register puts the town itself inside the area of outstanding natural beauty designated on 1 September 1963; the Dorset and East Devon Coast World Heritage Site covers the cliffs immediately to the west; and the East Devon Heritage Coast, designated on 1 June 1984, begins on the frontage east of the Otter mouth. The Environment Agency classes the town among exposed coastal areas facing Lyme Bay.
Standards classify a high-salinity coastal atmosphere as C5-M, very high marine, in which unprotected steel loses more than 80 micrometres of thickness in its first year against as little as 1.3 inland. Balustrades, railings, fixings and walkway structures are what that costs a Budleigh Salterton block, so we survey them on a shorter interval and fund the reserve fund from what the surveys find.
Flood Risk in Budleigh Salterton
Two distinct exposures with separate Environment Agency areas. The coastal warning area from Exmouth to Seaton lists the town among exposed coastal areas. The fluvial area for the lower Otter from Salston to Budleigh Salterton names riverside properties and roads through Tipton St John, Harpford, Newton Poppleford, Colaton Raleigh, Otterton and the town. The Lower Otter Restoration Project, started in July 2021 and completed in March 2023, is the largest intervention: a 15 million pound English component of a wider Anglo-French venture, it reconnected the river and its estuary to the floodplain for the first time in over 200 years, created 55 hectares of wetland, and raised South Farm Road to give an all-year-round flood-free route where the former road had been closed for significant periods, cutting off access to homes and businesses.
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 Budleigh Salterton
One area, designated on 1 February 1983, one of the 33 in East Devon. Note that East Budleigh is a separate conservation area covering a different village, designated on 1 October 1973 with its own appraisal reviewed in 2020, so a search on the name alone will return the wrong document.
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.
Radon in Budleigh Salterton
The lowest of the East Devon towns in this research. UKHSA's 2016 data report records 490 homes measured in the Budleigh ward with two at or above the action level, an arithmetic mean of 32 becquerels per cubic metre. In the EX9 6 postcode sector covering the town, one result of 420 was at or above the action level.
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 Budleigh Salterton
Decided under the East Devon Local Plan 2013 to 2031, adopted on 28 January 2016, with a plan for 2020 to 2042 emerging. The Budleigh Salterton Neighbourhood Plan was made on 12 October 2017 after a referendum on 6 September 2017 in which 1,430 voted yes, 94.7 per cent, and 73 voted no. No Article 4 direction is recorded for the town.
This is development plan policy, so it binds the council when it decides an application and it binds a leaseholder's alteration just as it binds a developer's scheme. It sits alongside, not instead of, the consent the lease requires.
Changing Managing Agent in Budleigh Salterton
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 Budleigh Salterton 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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Budleigh Salterton Questions
Which Council Does a Block in Budleigh Salterton Deal With?
East Devon 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 Budleigh Salterton?
Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service, as the enforcing authority for the Fire Safety Order.
Who Supplies Water to a Development in Budleigh Salterton?
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 Budleigh Salterton?
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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