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Prospect House Parabola Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL50 3BD

04/02171/COUChange of UseApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 16 February 2005

Council decision: PermitDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of ground floor, first floor and second floor to residential use (from offices B1) retaining basement as offices (B1)

Received
23 December 2004
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Lansdown
  1. Received23 Dec
  2. Validated24 Dec
  3. Consult.3 Feb
  4. Target18 Feb
  5. Decided16 Feb

Decided in 54 days (council typically 35)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Prospect House Parabola Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL50 3BD. Cheltenham has handled 495 applications of this type. This one was decided in 55 days, 3 weeks longer than Cheltenham's typical decision time. The site is in the Central conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 148 applications across Lansdown. We hold 2,077 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 3BD
Application type
Change of Use
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 December 2004
Consultation expiry
14 March 2005
Consultation start
13 January 2005
Consultation end
3 February 2005
Neighbour consultation start
21 February 2005
Neighbour consultation end
14 March 2005
Last date for comments
14 March 2005
Target decision date
18 February 2005
Committee meeting
24 March 2005
Permission expires
16 February 2010

Applicant and agent

Agent address
4 Colston Avenue Bristol BS1 4ST

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
18 January 2005
Site notice start
18 January 2005
Site notice end
8 February 2005

Additional information

Documents
2
Constraints
2

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Central Conservation Area
  • Brownfield land register: Lansdown Industrial EstateRegister 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 (21)

flood storage 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 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.

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.

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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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