A public consultation on future housing developments in Teignbridge may go ahead if councillors give their approval next week (1 June).

Councillors will be asked to approve an eight-week consultation on where thousands of new homes across Teignbridge could be built.

More than 100 sites across the district have been identified as places where future housing provision could be provided as part of the Teignbridge Local Plan that will run until 2040.

The proposal is to give residents eight weeks from June 14 to comment on a range of site development options to meet future local housing and employment needs for the next 20 years as well as seeking views on locations for a new secondary school in Newton Abbot.

The majority of sites identified are around the district's towns, maximising opportunities for access to services, employment and public transport as well as walking and cycling connections, with the aim to minimise the need for car travel and so reduce the impact of development on climate change.

The Heart of Teignbridge area around Newton Abbot has provisionally been allocated for 2,920 homes, with the edge of Exeter for a further 1,800 homes, around 1,000 homes in Dawlish, 100 homes in Teignmouth, 250 homes in Bovey Tracey, 250 homes in Ashburton, and 960 homes in the villages. Chudleigh, Bickington, Ide and Shaldon however will not see any sites allocated as nowhere suitable came forward during the call for sites.

No decisions as to which of the sites will ultimately be taken forward and allocated in the Local Plan have been made ahead of the consultation and local people will be asked to comment on their preferred options and in particular whether development would improve or exacerbate existing local issues, and the factors that should be taken into account in deciding whether the sites should be included at the next stage.

Which sites are being looked at in Dawlish?

DAWLISH NORTH

Indicative number of homes factoring in sensitivities and requirements: 696 – 922 homes

Location: The site lies to the north of Dawlish and includes land to the west and east of the A379 and immediately north and south of Dawlish Countryside Park.

Comments: The site lies adjacent to Dawlish Countryside Park, providing opportunities for recreation and healthy lifestyles and the large scale of the site offers opportunities to provide good layout and design, incorporating sustainable travel links and open spaces, but the site would extend development along the A379 and could reinforce the linear form of development, and the site lies within the recreational buffer of Exe Estuary SPA/Ramsar Site and Dawlish Warren SAC

LANGDON HOSPITAL

Indicative number of homes factoring in sensitivities and requirements: 839- 1,084 homes

Location: The site lies to the north west of Dawlish, extending from west of Langdon Hospital south westwards to Langdon Farm

Comments: Part of the site lies adjacent to the existing development site of DA2 and the site would be able to link into the sustainable travel networks of the adjacent development and would be sufficiently large to provide for active travel through the site, but development of the higher or north facing slopes of the site would be more conspicuous in the landscape. The development of this site depends on the timing of construction of the adjacent development at DA2, including the construction of the link road, and therefore, this site may only be deliverable in the later stages of the Local Plan period and may be limited to the areas of the site closest to this development.

WARREN FARM

Indicative number of homes factoring in sensitivities and requirements: 93 – 128 homes

Location: The site lies to north east of Dawlish, between Dawlish and Dawlish Warren

Comments: The site lies between 700m and 1.5km away from a station (it is approximately equidistant between Dawlish and Dawlish Warren railway stations) and there would be easy access along an existing footway to the A379, but it is within a Rebuilding Devon Nature area (although development may provide opportunities to improve biodiversity). The site lies adjacent to the Undeveloped Coast designation.

TEIGNMOUTH ROAD

Indicative number of homes factoring in sensitivities and requirements: 220 homes

Location: The site lies at southern extent of Dawlish, adjacent to the settlement limit.

Comments: Only half the site is developable due to land that slopes greater than a 1:6 gradient

WEECH ROAD

Indicative number of homes factoring in sensitivities and requirements: 7 homes

Location: 13 Weech Road comprises a Grade II listed farmhouse and farm building, enclosed by brick walling along the road and is bordered by residential development.

Comments: Development of the site has the potential to involve a sensitive restoration and conversion of the existing listed buildings into small residential units, but unlikely to be suitable for new build homes.

DAW VALE NURSING HOME

Indicative number of homes factoring in sensitivities and requirements: 18 homes.

Location: The brownfield site lies within the built up area of Dawlish between Westcliffe Road and Barton Lane.

Comments: The site has full planning permission for 18 dwellings

LANHERNE

Indicative number of homes factoring in sensitivities and requirements: 5 homes

Location: It comprises a grassed area with some trees immediately east of the car park serving 1-50 Lanherne.

Comments: The development of this site would utilise a brownfield site close to the town centre of Dawlish and existing access could be used

HALDON TERRACE

Indicative number of homes factoring in sensitivities and requirements: 5 homes

Location: The site lies close to the town centre of Dawlish, to the east of Hospital Hill.

Comments: Due to the potential harm to the setting of the listed buildings at Haldon Terrace that would result from developing the grassed area, only redevelopment of the commercial buildings is considered suitable.

BADLAKE HILL/WEECH ROAD

Indicative number of homes factoring in sensitivities and requirements: 5 homes

Location: The site lies within the western part of Dawlish, to the east of Hospital Hill and south of Haldon Terrace.

Comments: The development of the site would result in a more efficient use of land within the built up area of Dawlish but it is not known if the site is available for re-development.

LYME ACRE

Indicative number of homes factoring in sensitivities and requirements: 3 homes, although this could be increased if apartments were constructed.

Location: It is a large residential garden enclosed by mature trees.

Comments: The development of the large residential curtilage of Lyme Acre would result in a more efficient use of land within Dawlish. A higher number of homes could be achieved if apartments were constructed.

For all sites in Dawlish, the proposed level of development in Dawlish (c.1000) could help to generate the funding and numbers required to justify a new primary school (site of 1.9ha will be required) rather than an expansion to the existing one and should be provided as part of new development in the north of the town.

The level of development proposed will require additional secondary facilities, and an expansion at the existing secondary school will be required.