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31 Courtenay Street Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL50 4LR

23/00245/CLEUDCertificate of Lawful Use - Existing UseApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 17 March 2023

Council decision: Certificate of Lawful Existing UseDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application for a Lawful Development Certificate to confirm the continuous use of the property as a House in Multiple Occupation (HMO) in Class C4 since July 2004

Received
14 February 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
St Pauls
  1. Received14 Feb
  2. Validated15 Feb
  3. Consult.10 Mar
  4. Target12 Apr
  5. Decided17 Mar

Decided in 30 days (council typically 35)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 31 Courtenay Street Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL50 4LR. Cheltenham has handled 495 applications of this type. This one was decided in 31 days, 4 days quicker than Cheltenham's typical decision time. The site is in the Central conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded 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.

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
GL50 4LR
Application type
Certificate of Lawful Use - Existing Use
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 February 2023
Consultation expiry
10 March 2023
Consultation start
17 February 2023
Consultation end
10 March 2023
Last date for comments
10 March 2023
Target decision date
12 April 2023

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-11897713
Documents
6
Constraints
6

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
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

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, 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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