Plans for new homes on the site of the former Moretonhampstead station have been given the go ahead. Baker Estates’ scheme for 35 properties to be built in Station Road was backed almost unanimously by the Dartmoor National Park planning committee.
The homes will be built on an area of land at the Thompson’s Haulage depot and developers have been told they should conserve and enhance the site’s railway heritage, sensitively incorporating the goods shed and platform and provide a link to the Wray Valley Trail which follows the line much of the way through Lustleigh And Bovey Tracey.
Recommending approval, Chris Hart, the authority’s Planning Team Manager, said the plans would inevitably impact on the setting of the Grade II listed engine shed, while the old goods shed is proposed to be converted into three residential units.
Moretonhampstead railway station was opened on 4th July 1866 and was the terminus of a branch line from Newton Abbot via Heathfield. It was closed to passengers on March 2nd, 1959. The line closed to goods trains on April 6th, 1964.