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Cemetery Chapels Bouncers Lane Cheltenham Gloucestershire

25/01843/LBCListed Building ConsentApproved

Approved on 6 January 2026

Council decision: GrantDelegated (officer decision)

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Conversion of existing Crematorium Chapels and associated rooms to a Cafe, Wake Function Rooms and associated support spaces.

Received
17 November 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
2
Ward
Oakley
  1. Received17 Nov
  2. Validated20 Nov
  3. Consult.18 Dec
  4. Target15 Jan
  5. Decided6 Jan

Decided in 47 days (council typically 35)

About this application

This is a heritage application at Cemetery Chapels Bouncers Lane Cheltenham Gloucestershire. Cheltenham has handled 1,724 applications of this type. This one was decided in 50 days, 2 weeks longer than Cheltenham's typical decision time. The site is in 3 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 12 applications across Oakley.

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

Application type
Listed Building Consent
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 November 2025
Consultation expiry
1 January 2026
Consultation start
27 November 2025
Consultation end
18 December 2025
Last date for comments
1 January 2026
Target decision date
15 January 2026
Permission expires
6 January 2029

Applicant and agent

Agent
Agent
Agent address
35 Rodney Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL50 1HX

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
11 December 2025
Site notice start
11 December 2025
Site notice end
1 January 2026

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14491614
Documents
20
Constraints
2

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, conservation areas, Article 4 directions, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, 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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