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Former Gloucester Academy Estcourt Close Gloucester GL1 3LR

18/00347/REMApproval of Reserved MattersApproved
Reserved matters

Approved on 20 August 2018

Council decision: Grant Permission subject to conditionsPlanning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Submission of reserved matters of appearance , landscaping, layout and scale following outline application reference 16/00631/OUT for the Redevelopment of part of the Former Bishop's college site for Residential use creating up to 90 new homes and provision of open space ( all matters reserved except access )

Received
21 March 2018
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Longlevens
  1. Received21 Mar
  2. Validated23 Mar
  3. Consult.25 Jul
  4. Target22 Jun
  5. Decided20 Aug

Decided in 150 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application at Former Gloucester Academy Estcourt Close Gloucester GL1 3LR. Gloucester has handled 95 applications of this type. This one was decided in 152 days, 15 weeks longer than Gloucester's typical decision time. There have been 4 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 12 applications across Longlevens. We hold 773 applications in total for the GL1 postcode area.

80% of outline applications at Gloucester City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
GL1 3LR
Application type
Approval of Reserved Matters
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
90

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 March 2018
Consultation expiry
25 July 2018
Consultation start
4 July 2018
Consultation end
25 July 2018
Neighbour consultation start
8 August 2018
Neighbour consultation end
18 July 2018
Last date for comments
18 July 2018
Target decision date
22 June 2018
Committee meeting
7 August 2018
Permission expires
20 August 2021

Planning decision

Statutory period
91 days

Publicity

Last advertised
19 April 2018
Advertisement expiry
10 May 2018
Site notice start
17 April 2018
Site notice end
8 May 2018

Additional information

Documents
91

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Brownfield land register: Former Bishops College, off Estcourt Close, LonglevensRegister site at or near this address
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, 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 and heritage coasts.

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

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© 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.

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