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Electricity Substation, Lytton Gardens, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1LW

25/02559/ELECCircular 14/90 (O'head Electric Lines)Approved

Approved on 6 August 2025

Council decision: Permitted DevelopmentDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Proposed upgrade to electricity substation

Received
30 June 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Southdown
  1. Received30 Jun
  2. Validated30 Jun
  3. Consult.
  4. Target11 Aug
  5. Decided6 Aug

Decided in 37 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a planning application at Electricity Substation, Lytton Gardens, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1LW. Bath has handled 58 applications of this type. This one was decided in 37 days, 12 days quicker than Bath's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 32 applications across Southdown. We hold 3,428 applications in total for the BA2 postcode area.

97% of all applications at Bath and North East Somerset Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
BA2 1LW
Application type
Circular 14/90 (O'head Electric Lines)
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 June 2025
Target decision date
11 August 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

UPRN
010001149312

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • World Heritage Site: City of Bath
  • Brownfield land register: St Joseph's Church, Sladebrook Road, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1…Register site at or near this address
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (20)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves and heritage coasts.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

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