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251 Gloucester Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL51 8NW

03/01905/COUChange of UseRefused
Discharge / amendments

Refused on 22 January 2004

Council decision: RefuseDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use from Class A1 to Class A2

Received
2 December 2003
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
St Marks
  1. Received2 Dec
  2. Validated5 Dec
  3. Consult.26 Apr
  4. Target30 Jan
  5. Decided22 Jan

Decided in 48 days (council typically 35)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 251 Gloucester Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL51 8NW. Cheltenham has handled 495 applications of this type. This one was decided in 51 days, 2 weeks longer than Cheltenham's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 15 applications across St Marks. We hold 1,097 applications in total for the GL51 postcode area.

97% of amendment applications at Cheltenham Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 5 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
GL51 8NW
Application type
Change of Use
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 December 2003
Consultation expiry
17 May 2004
Consultation start
26 April 2004
Consultation end
26 April 2004
Neighbour consultation start
26 April 2004
Neighbour consultation end
17 May 2004
Last date for comments
17 May 2004
Target decision date
30 January 2004
Committee meeting
22 January 2004
Decision issued
26 January 2004
Permission expires
26 January 2009

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Richard Moffat Abbey House 32 Booth Street Manchester M2 4QP

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
4
Constraints
2

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, 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

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© 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: Cheltenham

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