Old Library Memorial Hall Upper Nelson Street Chepstow NP16 5PG
Approved on 20 January 2026
Council decision: ApproveDelegated (officer decision)7 conditions
Proposal
We require a change of use for this building. The current use of the building is light industrial, where we run arts and crafts courses and workshops and this will continue as is. We would like to extend this to a mixed used that includes A3 (cafe/bar with food and drinks, we have acquired our personal and premises alcohol licence), A1 to cover a shop (we will be selling arts and crafts) including occasional markets. We plan to be running entertaining live performance including live music, comedy, talks, screening, etc. We would like to be able to use the outside space within the boundary of the building as part of the cafe, tables and chairs, etc.
- Received
- 14 October 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Monmouthshire County Council
- Ward
- Chepstow Castle And Larkfield
- ReceivedReceived14 Oct
- ValidatedValidated1 Nov
- Consult.Consultation24 Nov
- TargetTarget Date12 Jan
- DecidedDecided20 Jan
Decided in 80 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a change of use at Old Library Memorial Hall Upper Nelson Street Chepstow NP16 5PG. Monmouthshire has handled 2,399 applications of this type. This one was decided in 98 days, 7 weeks longer than Monmouthshire's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 30 applications across Chepstow Castle And Larkfield. We hold 1,579 applications in total for the NP16 postcode area.
96% of full applications at Monmouthshire County Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- NP16 5PG
- Application type
- Planning Permission
- Scale / size
- Medium
- Parish
- Chepstow Town Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 1 November 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 27 November 2025
- Consultation start
- 3 November 2025
- Consultation end
- 24 November 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 6 November 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 27 November 2025
- Last date for comments
- 27 November 2025
- Target decision date
- 12 January 2026
- Decision issued
- 26 January 2026
- Permission expires
- 26 January 2031
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 72 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14408078
- Documents
- 10
Site constraints
Source: Monmouthshire
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