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Capel House The Burgage Prestbury Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL52 3DN

19/02162/CACNConservation Area NotificationApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 4 November 2019

Council decision: No objection raisedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Sycamore (as described) - remove

Received
29 October 2019
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Prestbury
  1. Received29 Oct
  2. Validated29 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target10 Dec
  5. Decided4 Nov

Decided in 6 days (council typically 35)

About this application

This is a heritage application at Capel House The Burgage Prestbury Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL52 3DN. Cheltenham has handled 1,724 applications of this type. This one was decided in 6 days, 4 weeks quicker than Cheltenham's typical decision time. The site is in the Prestbury conservation area, with 8 listed buildings nearby. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 49 applications across Prestbury. We hold 1,672 applications in total for the GL52 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
GL52 3DN
Application type
Conservation Area Notification
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Prestbury

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 October 2019
Target decision date
10 December 2019
Committee meeting
21 November 2019
Permission expires
4 November 2021

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
5
Constraints
1

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: The Prestbury Conservation Area
  • Listed building: Grade II: Prestbury House HotelOn 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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Planning history at this site

11 other applications at this property, newest first.

  1. 2021
    23 Mar

    Robinia - Fell to ground. The tree has a few large cavities at the first large unions (please see pictures…

    ApprovedConservation Area Notification21/00679/CACN
  2. 2021
    2 Mar

    Yew 1 - reduce canopy by 10%, Yew 2 - reduce canopy by 10%

    ApprovedConservation Area Notification21/00495/CACN
  3. 2021
    6 Jan

    1) Laburnum-Fell. 2) Birch-Fell.

    ApprovedConservation Area Notification21/00024/CACN
  4. 2010
    3 Nov

    Internal and external alterations to facilitate a change of use and subdivision of hotel to create 2no…

    ApprovedListed building consent10/01778/LBC
  5. 2010
    3 Nov

    Change of use and subdivision of hotel (Use Class C1) to create 2no. residential dwellings (Use Class C3) and…

    ApprovedChange of Use10/01777/COU
  6. 2010
    17 Aug

    Change of use from hotel (Use Class C1) to single residential dwelling (Use Class C3) - no alterations to…

    ApprovedChange of Use10/01363/COU

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