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20 Church Road Lawrence Hill Bristol BS5 9JY

25/10786/CPCertificate of Lawfulness - proposedApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 17 April 2025

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

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application for a Lawful Development Certificate for a Proposed Use or Development - Change of use to 4no. small HMO following the implementation of planning permission 23/04825/F and 24/01716/F in full.

Received
20 February 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Lawrence Hill
  1. Received20 Feb
  2. Validated20 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target17 Apr
  5. Decided17 Apr

Decided in 56 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 20 Church Road Lawrence Hill Bristol BS5 9JY. Bristol has handled 1,217 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days, 2 weeks longer than Bristol's typical decision time. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 122 applications across Lawrence Hill. We hold 1,443 applications in total for the BS5 postcode area.

83% of outline 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 9JY
Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness - proposed
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Ashley, Easton And Lawrence Hill

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 February 2025
Target decision date
17 April 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13787906
Documents
5
Constraints
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Article 4 direction: Ashley Ward, Cabot Ward, Clifton East Ward, Cotham Ward and Lawrence Hill Ward (1999 ward…
  • 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.

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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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Associated applications

  1. 2025
    20 Feb

    Application for a Lawful Development Certificate for a Proposed Use or Development - Change of use to 4no…

    This applicationApprovedOutline25/10786/CP
  2. 2024
    11 Dec

    Application for approval of details reserved by condition 2 and 3 of permission 23/04825/F

    ApprovedDischarge of conditions24/04908/COND
  3. 2023
    13 Dec

    Conversion of a mixed-use commercial building to ground floor offices and 2no. small Houses in Multiple…

    ApprovedFull PlanningPart of23/04825/F

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