Block Management in Crediton
Block, estate and leasehold management for Crediton. Compliance is tracked against Mid Devon District Council and the county above it.
Managing a Block in Crediton at a Glance
- Local authority
- Mid Devon District Council
- Authority type
- District, under the county council
- Building control
- Mid 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
- Inland
Who You Deal with in Crediton
A block in Crediton deals with Mid 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 Crediton
The two Crediton wards are very different and a block in one is not comparable to a block in the other. In Boniface 258 of 1,865 households were flats at the 2021 Census, 13.8 per cent, 214 of them purpose-built. In Lawrence 509 of 1,845 households were flats, 27.6 per cent, of which 326 were purpose-built, 61 in a converted or shared house, 64 in another converted building and 58 over commercial premises. Lawrence has the highest flat share of any ward in the Devon towns covered here.
Flood Risk in Crediton
Crediton has no flood warning area of its own, which is itself the useful fact. It sits inside the Mid Devon Rivers alert area covering the Creedy, the Creedy Yeo, the Little Dart and the Lapford Yeo, while the nearest warning areas are just outside the town at Fordton, naming Fordton Bridge, Fordton Terrace and the industrial estate, and on the reach from Upton Hellions to Cowley. The council inspects local flood assets at Lords Meadow Leisure Centre, Pitt Hill, Pitt Hill Lane and Stoneypark Lane but publishes no scheme date or cost for any of them.
The cost lands on the insurance schedule and on the reserve fund long before any water does.
Conservation Areas and Listed Buildings in Crediton
One area, designated on 20 October 1981, extended in January 1990 and revised again in March 2003, one of 51 in the Mid Devon district. The council's own appraisal counts 232 listed buildings inside it, including the grade I fifteenth century church of the Holy Cross, the grade II Spurways Almshouses, the chapel of St Lawrence with thirteenth century masonry remaining, and grade II star buildings at Union Terrace, Union Road and the High Street.
232 listed buildings inside a single conservation area is a very high density for a town of this size, and it is the council's own published figure rather than a derived count. On a block inside that boundary, listed building consent is a live question for almost any external alteration.
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 Crediton
Decided under the Mid Devon Local Plan Review 2013 to 2033, adopted on 29 July 2020. The Crediton Neighbourhood Plan 2018 to 2033 was made on 26 October 2022, the second made in Mid Devon, after a referendum on 22 September 2022 in which 719 voted yes and 94 no on a 13 per cent turnout. Mid Devon's only Article 4 direction is at Cullompton and does not reach Crediton.
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 Crediton
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 Crediton 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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Crediton Questions
Which Council Does a Block in Crediton Deal With?
Mid 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 Crediton?
Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service, as the enforcing authority for the Fire Safety Order.
Who Supplies Water to a Development in Crediton?
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 Crediton?
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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