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Gloucestershire County Council Cheltenham Library Clarence Street Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL50 3JT

25/01636/LBCListed Building ConsentApproved

Approved on 20 March 2026

Council decision: GrantPlanning committee2 conditions

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Proposed replacement of 11no. first story windows to the rear (north-east) elevation, facing Chester Walk. Works involve retaining the existing timber sub-frames and replacing the deteriorated aluminium window units with new aluminium inserts to match the existing style and colour.

Received
9 October 2025
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Lansdown
  1. Received9 Oct
  2. Validated27 Jan
  3. Consult.3 Mar
  4. Target24 Mar
  5. Decided20 Mar

Decided in 52 days (council typically 35)

About this application

This is a heritage application for window replacement at Gloucestershire County Council Cheltenham Library Clarence Street Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL50 3JT. Cheltenham has handled 1,724 applications of this type. This one was decided in 162 days, 18 weeks longer than Cheltenham's typical decision time. The site is in the Central conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 149 applications across Lansdown. We hold 2,077 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 3JT
Application type
Listed Building Consent
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 January 2026
Consultation end
3 March 2026
Target decision date
24 March 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Agent
Agent address
Matthews Warehouse High Orchard Street Gloucester Quays Gloucester GL2 5QY

Planning decision

Case officer
Ms Victoria Hodgson
Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14385625
Comments
0
Documents
11
Constraints
9

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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.

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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