18 Union Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN1 3BJ
Approved on 6 December 2023
Council decision: Granted ConditionallyDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Change of use from Existing HMO (Class C4) to flexible use between HMO (Class C4) and Dwelling (Class C3).
- Received
- 17 October 2023
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 4
- Council
- Lincoln City Council
- Ward
- Castle
- ReceivedReceived17 Oct
- ValidatedValidated23 Oct
- Consult.Consultation13 Nov
- TargetTarget Date19 Dec
- DecidedDecided6 Dec
Decided in 44 days (council typically 42)
About this application
This is an application to amend a permission at 18 Union Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN1 3BJ. Lincoln has handled 71 applications of this type. This one was decided in 50 days, 8 days longer than Lincoln's typical decision time. The site is in the Cathedral and City Centre conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 47 applications across Castle. We hold 1,244 applications in total for the LN1 postcode area.
97% of amendment applications at Lincoln City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 6 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- LN1 3BJ
- Application type
- Change of Use to C4
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 23 October 2023
- Consultation expiry
- 15 November 2023
- Consultation start
- 23 October 2023
- Consultation end
- 13 November 2023
- Neighbour consultation start
- 23 October 2023
- Neighbour consultation end
- 15 November 2023
- Last date for comments
- 15 November 2023
- Target decision date
- 19 December 2023
- Permission expires
- 6 December 2026
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Crofton Drive Allenby Road Industrial Estate Lincoln LN3 4NJ
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 57 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 25 October 2023
- Site notice end
- 15 November 2023
Additional information
- Documents
- 4
- Constraints
- 15
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Cathedral and City Centre
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers. Ask the council if these matter.
Also checked, none recorded (19)
flood storage areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, 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.
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