Block Management in Kingsbridge
Block, estate and leasehold management for Kingsbridge. Compliance is tracked against South Hams District Council and the county above it.
Managing a Block in Kingsbridge at a Glance
- Local authority
- South Hams District Council
- Authority type
- District, under the county council
- Building control
- South Hams 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 Kingsbridge
A block in Kingsbridge deals with South Hams 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 Kingsbridge
At the 2021 Census 667 of the 2,665 households in the Kingsbridge ward were flats, 25 per cent, of which 471 were purpose-built, 78 in a converted or shared house, 66 in another converted building and 52 over commercial premises. That is the second highest flat share of the Devon towns in this research after Ilfracombe.
Flood Risk in Kingsbridge
Tidal, with tide lock, and no formal defences. The council's strategic flood risk assessment states that the quayside and lower town are directly at risk from the estuary, and that fluvial flooding can occur in the lower town at high tide when the culverted watercourses discharging to the quay become tide locked. It also records that during a very high tide water can reach road level in the lower town through the highway drainage without the quay being overtopped at all, which is the kind of mechanism that surprises a board. At least 12 flood events were reported in 25 years. The made neighbourhood plan names Kingsbridge Quayside, Ilbert Road, Mill Street, Bridge Street, Prince of Wales Road and Lime Grove as regularly flooding. A 1.5 million pound flood alleviation scheme benefiting over 200 properties is listed as required infrastructure in the local plan.
The cost lands on the insurance schedule and on the reserve fund long before any water does.
Conservation Areas and Listed Buildings in Kingsbridge
One area, first designated by the county council on 28 January 1972 and extended twice, on 3 October 1985 and 24 February 1994. Dodbrooke sits inside Kingsbridge parish rather than being a separate area, and no appraisal is published. Historic England's list holds 123 entries in the parish, two of them grade I, the church of St Edmund and the church of St Thomas a Becket at Dodbrooke, and three grade II star. The made neighbourhood plan adds that there are well over 400 non-designated heritage assets in the plan area, which matter in a planning decision without being listed.
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 Kingsbridge
Class 5 of 6 across the town, where the maximum radon potential is 10 to 30 per cent of homes above the action level. Thirteen of the sixteen kilometre squares return class 5 and three class 6, and both the quay tide gauge and the ward centroid return class 5. Second only to Ivybridge in this research.
In a block the part worth attention is the enclosed communal space at or below ground level: plant rooms, undercrofts, basements and bin stores. Measuring is inexpensive, takes three months, and the result belongs with the compliance record.
Planning Policy That Affects Flats in Kingsbridge
Decided under the Plymouth and South West Devon Joint Local Plan 2014 to 2034, adopted by South Hams on 21 March 2019, with Kingsbridge a main town in the Thriving Towns and Villages policy area and 267 homes allocated across three sites. The joint Kingsbridge, West Alvington and Churchstow Neighbourhood Plan was made on 15 December 2022. There is no Article 4 direction anywhere in the district. The town centre sits inside the South Devon National Landscape, designated on 1 August 1960, rather than merely abutting it.
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 Kingsbridge
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 Kingsbridge 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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Kingsbridge Questions
Which Council Does a Block in Kingsbridge Deal With?
South Hams 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 Kingsbridge?
Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service, as the enforcing authority for the Fire Safety Order.
Who Supplies Water to a Development in Kingsbridge?
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 Kingsbridge?
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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