The Wilson Cheltenham Art Gallery And Museum Clarence Street Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL50 3JT
Approved on 31 July 2026
Council decision: GrantPlanning committee3 conditions
Proposal
Redevelopment / alteration to exhibition spaces.
- Received
- 7 May 2026
- Decision level
- Planning committee
- Public comments
- 1
- Council
- Cheltenham Borough Council
- Ward
- Lansdown
- ReceivedReceived7 May
- ValidatedValidated18 May
- Consult.Consultation9 Jun
- TargetTarget Date13 Jul
- DecidedDecided31 Jul
Decided in 74 days (council typically 35)
About this application
This is a heritage application at The Wilson Cheltenham Art Gallery And Museum Clarence Street Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL50 3JT. Cheltenham has handled 1,724 applications of this type. This one was decided in 85 days, 7 weeks longer than Cheltenham's typical decision time. The site is in the Blockley conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There have been 3 other applications 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
- 18 May 2026
- Consultation expiry
- 18 June 2026
- Consultation start
- 19 May 2026
- Consultation end
- 9 June 2026
- Last date for comments
- 18 June 2026
- Target decision date
- 13 July 2026
- Permission expires
- 31 July 2029
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 28 May 2026
- Site notice start
- 28 May 2026
- Site notice end
- 18 June 2026
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14915860
- Documents
- 26
- Constraints
- 8
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Central Conservation Area
- Listed building: Grade II: Library, Museum and Art Gallery and Attached RailingsOn this site · +4 more
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
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.
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Planning history at this site
3 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 20262 Oct
Display of external signage and exhibition graphics at The Wilson Art Gallery and Museum, including two…
PendingAdvertisement consent26/01559/ADV - 20268 Aug
Reinstatement of two projecting exhibition banners to the principal elevation using a new banner support…
PendingListed building consent26/01262/LBC - 20233 Jul
Internal works to the Wilson Art Gallery and Museum
ApprovedListed building consent23/01123/LBC
Source: Cheltenham
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