Located on Devon Road on the southern side of Salcombe along the slope down to the estuary, Sheerwater is a seven bedroom property that has occupied the site for a number of years.

According to the applicant's architect the house has been:

seemingly extended several times and with a somewhat chaotic layout on three main floors, with a loft room level all split over many subsequent floor levels that step down from west to east due to the slope of the site.

This apparently being sufficient justification for it to be demolished and replaced with a supposedly:

improved and more coherent design to replace the disjointed existing dwelling and its extensions, while making best use of the estuary & ocean views and existing landscape features that are a distinct feature of the site currently.

Inevitably the new design will boast a considerable increase in glazing with full height windows and doors. Many of the tress that were previously on the site have already been removed including those along Devon Road that previously screened the property from the Four Winds development behind.

Needless to say the new building will also be far larger, occupying almost the entire site area, with the proposed four storey elevation looking significantly larger than the two storey appearance of the existing building.

The increase in the built form is such that insufficient space will be left for an effective mitigating landscaping scheme, made worse by the earlier removal of trees, and will clearly fail to conserve and enhance the landscape and scenic beauty of this part of the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty when viewed from the Estuary.