20 Meare Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5PP
Proposal
Change of use from an existing 8-person sui generis House in Multiple Occupation (HMO) to a 9-person sui generis HMO, including the conversion of an existing ground-floor communal store to form an additional bedroom.
- Received
- 2 September 2026
- Decided
- 16 October 2026 · Application Permitted
- Ward
- Combe Down
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- ReceivedSubmitted2 Sep
- ValidatedValidated2 Sep
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided16 Oct
Decided in 44 days (council typically 56)
This is a planning application for a change of use at 20 Meare Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5PP. Bath has handled 393 applications of this type and approves nearly all of them, typically deciding them in 54 days. This one was decided in 44 days, 10 days quicker than Bath's median. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 108 applications across Combe Down. We hold 3,348 applications in total for the BA2 postcode area.
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- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
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