51 Townsend Street Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL51 9HA
Approved on 24 November 2009
Council decision: PermitDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Amendment to previously approved scheme (ref: 08/01636/COU) to provide accommodation for a further 2 no. students (12 students total) and minor external alteration (retrospective)
- Received
- 2 October 2009
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 1
- Council
- Cheltenham Borough Council
- Ward
- St Pauls
- ReceivedReceived2 Oct
- ValidatedValidated3 Oct
- Consult.Consultation5 Nov
- TargetTarget Date28 Nov
- DecidedDecided24 Nov
Decided in 52 days (council typically 35)
About this application
This is an application to amend a permission at 51 Townsend Street Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL51 9HA. Cheltenham has handled 495 applications of this type. This one was decided in 53 days, 3 weeks longer than Cheltenham's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 38 applications across St Pauls. We hold 1,097 applications in total for the GL51 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
- GL51 9HA
- Application type
- Change of Use
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 3 October 2009
- Consultation expiry
- 5 November 2009
- Consultation start
- 15 October 2009
- Consultation end
- 5 November 2009
- Neighbour consultation start
- 15 October 2009
- Neighbour consultation end
- 5 November 2009
- Last date for comments
- 6 November 2009
- Target decision date
- 28 November 2009
- Committee meeting
- 17 December 2009
- Permission expires
- 24 November 2012
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- C/o Mrs Diana Jones Richwood House 50-54 Fairview Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL52 2JL
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Additional information
- Documents
- 21
- Constraints
- 3
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Article 4 direction: St Pauls Ward
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.
Also checked, none recorded (22)
flood storage areas, conservation 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, 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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