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The Playhouse Theatre 51 - 53 Bath Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL53 7HG

03/01993/LBCListed Building ConsentRefused

Refused on 5 April 2004

Council decision: RefuseDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Insertion of porthole in internal wall between committee room and bar store

Received
22 December 2003
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
College
  1. Received22 Dec
  2. Validated9 Feb
  3. Consult.3 Mar
  4. Target5 Apr
  5. Decided5 Apr

Decided in 56 days (council typically 35)

About this application

This is a heritage application at The Playhouse Theatre 51 - 53 Bath Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL53 7HG. Cheltenham has handled 1,724 applications of this type. This one was decided in 105 days, 10 weeks longer than Cheltenham's typical decision time. The site is in the Central conservation area, with 11 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 109 applications across College. We hold 1,442 applications in total for the GL53 postcode area.

99% of heritage 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
GL53 7HG
Application type
Listed Building Consent
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
9 February 2004
Consultation expiry
9 March 2004
Consultation start
11 February 2004
Neighbour consultation start
11 February 2004
Neighbour consultation end
3 March 2004
Last date for comments
9 March 2004
Target decision date
5 April 2004
Committee meeting
22 April 2004
Permission expires
5 April 2009

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
17 February 2004
Advertisement expiry
9 March 2004
Site notice start
17 February 2004
Site notice end
9 March 2004

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
3
Constraints
5

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, 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.

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Source: Cheltenham

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