23 Broad Street Wells Somerset BA5 2DJ
Approved on 25 February 2025
Council decision: ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Demolition of existing commercial buildings adjacent to listed buildings no25 and no27 Broad St, and redevelopment of the site to provide 3no dwellings.
- Received
- 4 January 2024
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 3
- Council
- Mendip
- Ward
- Wells Division
- Agent
- Hill Reading Architects
- ReceivedReceived4 Jan
- ValidatedValidated5 Jan
- Consult.Consultation29 Jan
- TargetTarget Date1 Mar
- DecidedDecided25 Feb
Decided in 417 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a heritage application for demolition at 23 Broad Street Wells Somerset BA5 2DJ. Mendip has handled 575 applications of this type. This one was decided in 418 days, 53 weeks longer than Mendip's typical decision time. The site is in the Wells conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 115 applications across Wells Division. We hold 1,945 applications in total for the BA5 postcode area.
82% of heritage applications at Mendip were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- BA5 2DJ
- Application type
- Listed Building Consent
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Wells City Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 5 January 2024
- Consultation expiry
- 14 February 2024
- Neighbour consultation end
- 29 January 2024
- Target decision date
- 1 March 2024
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Hill Reading Architects
- Architect profile
- HILL READING ARCHITECTS LIMITED
- Agent address
- Hill Reading Architects Coach House Studio 34A Chamberlain Street Wells Somerset BA5 2PJ
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Site notice end
- 14 February 2024
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-12519000
- Documents
- 26
- Constraints
- 20
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Wells
- Nutrient neutrality catchment: Brue CatchmentApplies to new homes and overnight accommodation
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.
Also checked, none recorded (19)
flood storage areas, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, 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.
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© 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.
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Planning history at this site
1 other application at this property, newest first.
Source: Mendip
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