Block Management in Cullompton
Block, estate and leasehold management for Cullompton. Compliance is tracked against Mid Devon District Council and the county above it.
Managing a Block in Cullompton 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 Cullompton
A block in Cullompton 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 Cullompton
At the 2021 Census 516 of the 4,967 households across the three Cullompton wards were flats, 10.4 per cent, of which 384 were purpose-built, 60 in a converted or shared house, 31 in another converted building and 41 over commercial premises. Taking only the two urban wards the share rises to 12.2 per cent.
Flood Risk in Cullompton
Fluvial on the River Culm, and the council publishes the numbers. Its strategic flood risk assessment puts 469 properties in flood zone 3 and 612 in zone 2, second only to Tiverton in the district, and Cullompton holds the district's only critical drainage area. The Environment Agency's warning area names Station Road, Longbridge Meadow, the Alexandria industrial estate, Rivermead, Meadow Lane and Knightswood. A 1.1 kilometre flood relief channel built as motorway compensation in the 1960s still carries part of the load, and the council records a surface water event on 7 August 1997 on the Crow Green Stream reaching about 300 millimetres.
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 Cullompton
One area, designated in 1977 and revised three times, in September 2003, March 2009 and most recently in February 2022, when a new appraisal and management plan was adopted on 23 February setting out six character areas. It is one of 51 in the district. Historic England's list holds 89 entries in the parish, two of them grade I, The Walronds and the parish church of St Andrew, and five grade II star; the management plan notes that the most highly graded buildings cluster at the north end of Fore Street.
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 Cullompton
Class 2 of 6 across the town, where the maximum radon potential is 1 to 3 per cent of homes above the action level and measurement is advised. Fourteen of the sixteen kilometre squares over the town return class 2 and the other two class 1, so this is one of the more uniform readings in this research.
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.
Licensing and Permitted Development in Cullompton
Mid Devon's only Article 4 direction is here, and it is unusually specific. In force from 17 December 2015 and confirmed on 24 February 2016, it covers roof lights, chimneys, porches, boundary walls, doors, windows and solar panels on dwellings in the conservation area. It is not an area-wide removal of permitted development but a list of elements, so the question on any given job is whether that element is on the list.
Two permissions get confused here. The council's requirements are public law and apply whatever the lease says; consent under the lease is private law and applies whatever the council says. A leaseholder letting a flat usually needs both.
Planning Policy That Affects Flats in Cullompton
Decided under the Mid Devon Local Plan Review 2013 to 2033, adopted on 29 July 2020. The Cullompton Neighbourhood Plan was made on 1 July 2021 after a referendum on 6 May 2021 in which 87.3 per cent voted in favour. Note when checking the date that the council's index page gives 30 June and its own detail page 1 July.
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 Cullompton
Two questions stall most boards: who has authority to decide, and what happens to the money. The articles answer the first, the management agreement's notice clause the second. On Cullompton 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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Cullompton Questions
Which Council Does a Block in Cullompton 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 Cullompton?
Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service, as the enforcing authority for the Fire Safety Order.
Who Supplies Water to a Development in Cullompton?
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 Cullompton?
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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