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London Stores, 5 Water Street, Newcastle Emlyn, SA38 9BH

PL/08984Lawful development: Proposed useRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 10 April 2025

Council decision: CLOPUD - Refusal

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Proposal

Certificate of Lawfulness for the proposed use of the ground floor of the building is for Hope Church. To be used as a place of worship. specifically on Sunday mornings (currently 9am-1pm). During the week and Saturdays, the building will be used for the church's related community activities. Most particularly a children's clothes library, a place where people can borrow new and preloved children's clothes. A free service which works just like a book library (Current opening hours, Monday and Wednesday 9-12, Thursday 2-5, 1st Saturday of the month 10-12). The space will be used for related community activities for example coffee mornings and other church meetings. No works will be carried out at the property, it is an empty room which will need no alterations

Received
24 February 2025
Ward
Cenarth and Llangeler
  1. Received24 Feb
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.
  4. Target25 Feb
  5. Decided10 Apr

Decided in 45 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application at London Stores, 5 Water Street, Newcastle Emlyn, SA38 9BH. Carmarthenshire has handled 585 applications of this type. This one was decided in 45 days, 4 days quicker than Carmarthenshire's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 35 applications across Cenarth and Llangeler. We hold 609 applications in total for the SA38 postcode area.

86% of outline applications at Carmarthenshire County Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
SA38 9BH
Application type
Lawful development: Proposed use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Newcastle Emlyn

Planning application dates

Validated
24 February 2025
Target decision date
25 February 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
1 days

Additional information

Documents
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Source: Carmarthenshire

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