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55 Townsend Street Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL51 9HA

21/00813/COUChange of UseApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 20 May 2021

Council decision: PermitDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of vacant motor vehicle workshop, stores and offices to 4no. two bed dwellings, together with associated demolition of single storey rear workshop and extension

Received
9 April 2021
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
St Pauls
Agent
RW Architectural Services Ltd
  1. Received9 Apr
  2. Validated10 Apr
  3. Consult.3 May
  4. Target5 Jun
  5. Decided20 May

Decided in 40 days (council typically 35)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 55 Townsend Street Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL51 9HA. Cheltenham has handled 495 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 have been 3 other applications 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
10 April 2021
Consultation expiry
3 May 2021
Consultation start
12 April 2021
Consultation end
3 May 2021
Neighbour consultation start
12 April 2021
Neighbour consultation end
3 May 2021
Last date for comments
3 May 2021
Target decision date
5 June 2021
Permission expires
20 May 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
RW Architectural Services Ltd
Architect profile
RW ARCHITECTURAL SERVICES LTD
Agent address
Slemish House Ferndale Road Whiteshill Stroud Gloucestershire GL6 6AY

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-09641505
Comments
0
Documents
12
Constraints
5

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Cheltenham

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