AN application for more than 20 ‘eco-lodges’ at a derelict Teignbridge quarry is due to go before planners this month.

Haldon Quarry could soon be the home to 27 eco-lodges as Wilderness Escapes and Hieronymus Gruff Ltd’s application - reference 24/02007/MAJ - seeks to change the use of the land.

According to the design and access statement, 26 of the lodges will be ‘for holiday use only’, with the remaining lodge existing for the ‘sole benefit of generating income for a charitable cause’ - Devon Air Ambulance is named in the document.

‘It would provide a model example of how fully sustainable holiday development can be created and would allow Teignbridge to lead by example in eco-tourism’, the statement goes on to say.

The application is due to go before Teignbridge Council planners by March 31.

Initially submitted in February 2025, a decision was due in the same year, however extension of time agreements were agreed, allowing the applicant(s) further time (beyond the statutory limit) to submit additional information.

The proposed units will be of ‘bespoke design and construction’, built to Passivhaus standards of thermal performance and air tightness, heated by an air source heat pump and spaced out, fitting around and within the vegetation.

The existing workshop building on the site contains a bat roost, which will be retained with the sole intention of not disturbing resident bats.

Wilderness Escapes’ ethos is that the accommodation ‘sits within the existing landscape’ and that visitors will stay within the landscape so to ‘fully experience it’.

Electric car charging points will be provided, according to the design and access statement.

The charging points will be located with purpose built PowerPods, to be located alongside each eco lodge.

The existing entrance to the site, formerly a quarry and contractors yard, would be closed and a new, discrete entrance will be created.

This is not the first time holiday lodges have been proposed for the site.

An application for 42 holiday lodges, submitted by RF Aggregates Limited in 2017, was rejected in 2022.