255 High Street Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL50 3HJ
Approved on 10 March 2004
Council decision: PermitDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Change of use of ground floor premises from Class A1 retail to Class A2 betting shop
- Received
- 26 January 2004
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Cheltenham Borough Council
- Ward
- St Pauls
- ReceivedReceived26 Jan
- ValidatedValidated26 Jan
- Consult.Consultation18 Feb
- TargetTarget Date22 Mar
- DecidedDecided10 Mar
Decided in 44 days (council typically 35)
About this application
This is an application to amend a permission at 255 High Street Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL50 3HJ. Cheltenham has handled 495 applications of this type. This one was decided in 44 days, 9 days longer than Cheltenham's typical decision time. The site is in the Central conservation area, with 4 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 38 applications across St Pauls. We hold 2,075 applications in total for the GL50 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
- GL50 3HJ
- Application type
- Change of Use
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 26 January 2004
- Consultation expiry
- 24 February 2004
- Consultation start
- 28 January 2004
- Neighbour consultation start
- 28 January 2004
- Neighbour consultation end
- 18 February 2004
- Last date for comments
- 24 February 2004
- Target decision date
- 22 March 2004
- Committee meeting
- 25 March 2004
- Permission expires
- 10 March 2009
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- David Hutchinson 6-20 Spitalgate Lane Cirencester Gloucestershire GL7 2DFE
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 3 February 2004
- Advertisement expiry
- 24 February 2004
- Site notice start
- 3 February 2004
- Site notice end
- 24 February 2004
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Central Conservation Area
- Article 4 direction: St Pauls Ward
- Brownfield land register: Montpellier House, Montpellier DriveRegister site at or near this address
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.
Also checked, none recorded (20)
flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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.
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