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St George Car Sales Blackswarth Road Bristol BS5 8AR

15/05231/CECertificate of Lawfulness - existingApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 2 December 2015

Council decision: Certificate of Lawfulness BE ISSUEDDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Application for a Lawful Development Certificate for an Existing use or operation - Carrying out of works approved under planning permission ref: 05/04006/F: "Erection of a four storey building comprising 20 flats with demolition of existing car sales office."

Received
13 October 2015
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
St George West
  1. Received13 Oct
  2. Validated14 Oct
  3. Consult.19 Nov
  4. Target9 Dec
  5. Decided2 Dec

Decided in 49 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at St George Car Sales Blackswarth Road Bristol BS5 8AR. Bristol has handled 546 applications of this type. This one was decided in 50 days, 8 days longer than Bristol's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 16 applications across St George West. We hold 1,443 applications in total for the BS5 postcode area.

77% of amendment applications at Bristol City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 6 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
BS5 8AR
Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness - existing
Scale / size
Medium
Number of dwellings
20
Parish
St George
District
St George

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 October 2015
Consultation expiry
19 November 2015
Consultation end
19 November 2015
Neighbour consultation start
29 October 2015
Neighbour consultation end
19 November 2015
Target decision date
9 December 2015

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-04550370
Documents
6
Constraints
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Article 4 direction: Article 4 East
  • Brownfield land register: 118 Blackswarth Road Bristol BS5 8ARRegister site at or near this address
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, tree preservation orders, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, 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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

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