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256 Church Road St George Bristol BS5 8AF

16/03117/FFull PlanningApproved
Full

Approved on 27 July 2016

Council decision: GRANTED subject to condition(s)Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Re-submission - Proposed conversion and extension (by an additional floor) of property into 4 flats and retention of ground floor retail unit.

Received
3 June 2016
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
St George West
  1. Received3 Jun
  2. Validated3 Jun
  3. Consult.20 Jul
  4. Target29 Jul
  5. Decided27 Jul

Decided in 54 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is a full planning application for an extension at 256 Church Road St George Bristol BS5 8AF. Bristol has handled 4,736 applications of this type. This one was decided in 54 days, 12 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.

88% of full 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 8AF
Application type
Full Planning
Scale / size
Small
Parish
St George
District
St George

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 June 2016
Consultation expiry
21 July 2016
Consultation start
29 June 2016
Consultation end
20 July 2016
Neighbour consultation start
30 June 2016
Neighbour consultation end
21 July 2016
Target decision date
29 July 2016

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
14
Constraints
5

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Article 4 direction: Article 4 East
  • Brownfield land register: 256 Church Road St George Bristol BS5 8AFRegister 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

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

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