156 Swindon Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL51 9EX
Approved on 17 September 2020
Council decision: No Prior Approval NeededDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Change the existing retail and storage space into a 2 bedroom flat
- Received
- 7 August 2020
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Cheltenham Borough Council
- Ward
- St Pauls
- Agent
- VJM Design House Ltd
- ReceivedReceived7 Aug
- ValidatedValidated8 Aug
- Consult.Consultation1 Sep
- TargetTarget Date3 Oct
- DecidedDecided17 Sep
Decided in 40 days (council typically 35)
About this application
This is an outline application at 156 Swindon Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL51 9EX. Cheltenham has handled 516 applications of this type. This one was decided in 41 days, 6 days 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.
92% of outline 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 9EX
- Application type
- Prior Approval Determination
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 8 August 2020
- Consultation expiry
- 1 September 2020
- Consultation start
- 11 August 2020
- Consultation end
- 1 September 2020
- Neighbour consultation start
- 11 August 2020
- Neighbour consultation end
- 1 September 2020
- Last date for comments
- 1 September 2020
- Target decision date
- 3 October 2020
- Permission expires
- 17 September 2025
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- VJM Design House Ltd
- Architect profile
- VJM DESIGN HOUSE LIMITED
- Agent address
- 26 Whaddon Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL52 5NA
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
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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Source: Cheltenham
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