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Thomas House St Margarets Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL50 4DZ

09/01764/CACConservation Area ConsentApproved
Listed building consent

Approved on 14 January 2010

Council decision: GrantDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Demolition of Thomas House, St Margarets Road and 1 St Margarets Parade, Bennington Street to facilitate redevelopment of site to provide mixed use building comprising commercial unit (classes A1, A2, B1) on ground floor, and 9 one bedroom and 4 two bedroom flats (total 13 flats) at ground, first, second and third floors (granted under planning permission ref. 09/01244/FUL)

Received
24 November 2009
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
St Pauls
  1. Received24 Nov
  2. Validated25 Nov
  3. Consult.22 Dec
  4. Target20 Jan
  5. Decided14 Jan

Decided in 50 days (council typically 35)

About this application

This is a heritage application for demolition at Thomas House St Margarets Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL50 4DZ. Cheltenham has handled 1,724 applications of this type. This one was decided in 51 days, 2 weeks longer than Cheltenham's typical decision time. The site is in the Central conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications 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.

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 4DZ
Application type
Conservation Area Consent
Scale / size
Medium
Number of dwellings
13

Planning application dates

Date validated
25 November 2009
Consultation expiry
29 December 2009
Consultation start
1 December 2009
Consultation end
22 December 2009
Last date for comments
29 December 2009
Target decision date
20 January 2010
Committee meeting
18 February 2010
Permission expires
14 January 2013

Applicant and agent

Agent address
FAO Roger Gransmore 1 Bellevue Terrace Chalford Stroud Gloucestershire GL6 8LD

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
8 December 2009
Advertisement expiry
29 December 2009
Site notice start
8 December 2009
Site notice end
29 December 2009

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-00896296
Comments
0
Documents
12
Constraints
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Central Conservation Area
  • Article 4 direction: St Pauls Ward
  • Brownfield land register: Pate Court, St Margarets RoadRegister 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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