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29 Falmouth Road Bishopston Bristol BS7 8PU

24/02269/FFull PlanningApproved
Full

Approved on 4 February 2025

Council decision: GRANTED subject to condition(s)Planning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of existing small HMO (Class C4) to large HMO (sui generis) and installation of bifold doors to basement, and rear roof extension.

Received
12 June 2024
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Redland
  1. Received12 Jun
  2. Validated23 Jul
  3. Consult.17 Dec
  4. Target17 Sep
  5. Decided4 Feb

Decided in 196 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 29 Falmouth Road Bishopston Bristol BS7 8PU. Bristol has handled 4,736 applications of this type. This one was decided in 237 days, 28 weeks longer than Bristol's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 77 applications across Redland. We hold 346 applications in total for the BS7 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
BS7 8PU
Application type
Full Planning
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bishopston, Cotham And Redland

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 July 2024
Consultation expiry
17 December 2024
Consultation end
17 December 2024
Neighbour consultation end
22 August 2024
Target decision date
17 September 2024
Committee meeting
29 January 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13089856
Documents
17
Constraints
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Article 4 direction: Article 4 North
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)

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, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

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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© 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.

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