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Art Gallery And Museum Clarence Street Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL50 3JL

09/00786/LBCListed Building ConsentApproved

Approved on 25 August 2009

Council decision: GrantPlanning committee

Proposal

Erection of new 4 storey public Art Gallery building with associated archiving and artefact storage linking to existing 1989 Museum and Gallery building, together with works to number 51 Clarence Street including the formation of a new shop front and replacement of the existing ground to first staircase, and demolition of properties at numbers 53 and 55 Clarence Street and two derelict cottages on Chester Walk.

Received
2 June 2009
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Lansdown
  1. Received2 Jun
  2. Validated3 Jun
  3. Consult.29 Jun
  4. Target29 Jul
  5. Decided25 Aug

Decided in 83 days (council typically 35)

About this application

This is a heritage application for demolition at Art Gallery And Museum Clarence Street Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL50 3JL. Cheltenham has handled 1,724 applications of this type. This one was decided in 84 days, 7 weeks longer than Cheltenham's typical decision time. The site is in the Central conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There have been 4 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 149 applications across Lansdown. We hold 2,077 applications in total for the GL50 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
GL50 3JL
Application type
Listed Building Consent
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 June 2009
Consultation expiry
7 July 2009
Consultation start
8 June 2009
Consultation end
29 June 2009
Neighbour consultation start
8 June 2009
Neighbour consultation end
29 June 2009
Last date for comments
7 July 2009
Target decision date
29 July 2009
Committee meeting
23 July 2009
Permission expires
25 August 2014

Applicant and agent

Agent address
FAO Mr Gary Collins 13 Princes Gardens London SW7 1NA

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
16 June 2009
Site notice start
16 June 2009
Site notice end
7 July 2009

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-00742540
Comments
0
Documents
59
Constraints
7

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: Norfolk HouseOn 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.

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Associated applications

  1. 2009
    2 Jun

    Erection of new 4 storey public Art Gallery building with associated archiving and artefact storage linking…

    This applicationApprovedListed building consent09/00786/LBC
  2. 2009
    2 Jun

    Demolition of properties at numbers 53 and 55 Clarence Street and two derelict cottages on Chester Walk…

    ApprovedConservation Area ConsentFiled alongside09/00787/CAC

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