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56 High Street Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL50 1EE

04/01726/COUChange of UseRefused
Discharge / amendments

Refused on 18 November 2004

Council decision: RefusePlanning committee

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

Proposal

Solid link instead of glazed link, to facilitate change of use of rear of existing building to A3, and new store

Received
5 October 2004
Decision level
Planning committee
Public comments
4
Ward
College
  1. Received5 Oct
  2. Validated6 Oct
  3. Consult.25 Nov
  4. Target1 Dec
  5. Decided18 Nov

Decided in 43 days (council typically 35)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 56 High Street Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL50 1EE. 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 14 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 110 applications across College. 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 1EE
Application type
Change of Use
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
6 October 2004
Consultation expiry
10 December 2004
Consultation start
4 November 2004
Consultation end
25 November 2004
Neighbour consultation start
19 November 2004
Neighbour consultation end
10 December 2004
Last date for comments
10 December 2004
Target decision date
1 December 2004
Committee meeting
18 November 2004
Decision issued
23 November 2004
Permission expires
23 November 2009

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Simon Butler Eagle Tower Montpellier Drive Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL50 1TA

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
19 October 2004
Advertisement expiry
9 November 2004
Site notice start
19 October 2004
Site notice end
9 November 2004

Additional information

Documents
2
Constraints
5

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Conservation area: Central Conservation Area
  • Listed building: Grade II: 54, High StreetOn or next to this site · +1 more
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

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.

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.

Source: Cheltenham

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