527 Fishponds Road Fishponds Bristol BS16 3AH
Refused on 10 June 2025
Council decision: Prior Approval REFUSEDDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Application to determine if prior approval is required for a proposed: Change of use from Commercial, Business and Service (Use Class E) to Dwellinghouses (Use Class C3) Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended) - Schedule 2, Part 3, Class MA - Proposed change of use of ground floor commercial unit to one bedroom flat.
- Received
- 15 April 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Bristol City Council
- Ward
- Eastville
- ReceivedReceived15 Apr
- ValidatedValidated15 Apr
- Consult.Consultation13 May
- TargetTarget Date10 Jun
- DecidedDecided10 Jun
Decided in 56 days (council typically 42)
About this application
This is an application to amend a permission at 527 Fishponds Road Fishponds Bristol BS16 3AH. Bristol has handled 546 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 56 applications across Eastville. We hold 1,712 applications in total for the BS16 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
- BS16 3AH
- Application type
- Prior Notification - Change of use (C3)
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Greater Fishponds
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 15 April 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 21 May 2025
- Consultation end
- 13 May 2025
- Target decision date
- 10 June 2025
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Site notice end
- 21 May 2025
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-13945906
- Documents
- 13
- Constraints
- 4
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Article 4 direction: Article 4 East
- 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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Planning history at this site
3 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 202617 Mar
Proposed replacement shopfront and changes to fenestration details at the rear.
ApprovedFull Planning26/11191/F - 202617 Mar
Application to determine if prior approval is required for a proposed: Change of use from Commercial…
ApprovedPrior Notification - Change of use (C3)26/11190/COU - 202616 Jan
Application for a Lawful Development Certificate for an Existing Use or Operation or Activity -The existing…
ApprovedCertificate of Lawfulness - existing26/10194/CE
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