AN APPLICATION to build 12 detached homes on the A382 Bovey Tracey Road has been withdrawn.

The development, 22/01027/MAJ at Linden Lea Caravan Storage, is adjacent to to DCC Minerals, which had objected on the grounds the housing could constrain extraction of the mineral resource.

The Teignbridge planning officer advised the developer’s agent: ‘This, unfortunately, is a major constraint to development at this site. I understand that DCC’s objection to development on land to the south of this site, within the NA2 allocation, is the reason that part of the allocation has not come forward.

‘That means that the full NA2 allocation is very unlikely to ever be realised.’