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Butler House Summerhill Road Bristol BS5 8HQ

26/13412/CPApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 23 September 2026

Council decision: Certificate of Lawfulness BE ISSUED

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Application for a Lawful Development Certificate for a Proposed use or development - The proposal seeks to undertake like-for-like (or as close as practicable) external alterations to the existing building, including the replacement of the external wall materials to achieve compliance with updated building and fire safety regulations.

Received
13 August 2026
Public comments
0 · last counted 7 October 2026
Ward
St George Central
  1. Received13 Aug
  2. Validated21 Sep
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided23 Sep

Decided in 2 days

About this application

This is a planning application at Butler House Summerhill Road Bristol BS5 8HQ. Bristol has handled 13,539 applications of this type. This one was decided in 2 days, 6 weeks quicker than Bristol's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 29 applications across St George Central. We hold 1,443 applications in total for the BS5 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
BS5 8HQ
Parish
St George

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 September 2026

Additional information

Documents
8

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 East
  • Brownfield land register: R/O Butler House Summerhill Road Bristol BS5 8HQRegister 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

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.

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