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2 Merton Road Bristol BS7 8TL

25/10970/PINSApplication submitted to PINS under S62ARefused

Refused on 7 August 2025

Proposal

Application for Planning permission for Erection of a second-floor extension to the above property, and the change of use to 6no. small houses in multiple occupation (Use Class C4).

Received
4 March 2025
Ward
Bishopston & Ashley Down
  1. Received4 Mar
  2. Validated18 Jun
  3. Consult.9 Jul
  4. Target13 Aug
  5. Decided7 Aug

Decided in 50 days

About this application

This is a planning application for a change of use at 2 Merton Road Bristol BS7 8TL. Bristol has handled 13,539 applications of this type. This one was decided in 156 days, 16 weeks longer than Bristol's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 33 applications across Bishopston & Ashley Down. We hold 346 applications in total for the BS7 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
BS7 8TL
Application type
Application submitted to PINS under S62A
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bishopston, Cotham And Redland

Planning application dates

Date validated
18 June 2025
Consultation expiry
18 July 2025
Consultation end
9 July 2025
Neighbour consultation end
18 July 2025
Target decision date
13 August 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice end
16 July 2025

Additional information

Documents
28
Constraints
2

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 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

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.

Source: Bristol

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