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Coventry Building Society, 19 - 20 High Street, City Centre, Coventry, CV1 5RE

PL/2023/0001778/FULFUL minor applicationApproved
Full

Approved

Council decision: Granted Conditions

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Change of use from Class E(g)(i) Offices to Class F1(a) Business College, together with associated external alterations to include: - the installation of a new shop front to the High Street elevation; - the introduction of new windows, at ground floor level, onto the west courtyard to provide natural light to the Induction Hall; - the removal of a rear two-storey store and plant room, and its replacement with a single storey, flat roof, addition; and - the introduction of floor to ceiling angled windows to first, mezzanine, second and third floors on south elevation, to provide natural daylight to classrooms.

Received
23 August 2023
Ward
St. Michael's
  1. Received23 Aug
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Coventry Building Society, 19 - 20 High Street, City Centre, Coventry, CV1 5RE. Coventry has handled 1,991 applications of this type. It has been with the council since 23 August 2023 and is still awaiting a decision. The site is in the Hill Top and Cathedral conservation area, with 16 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 145 applications across St. Michael's. We hold 1,238 applications in total for the CV1 postcode area.

84% of full applications at Coventry City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
CV1 5RE
Application type
FUL minor application

Planning application dates

Validated
23 August 2023

Planning decision

Decision
Granted Conditions

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Conservation area: Hill Top Conservation Area
  • Article 4 direction: Hmo - 30.9.23
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, tree preservation orders, 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.

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