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Old Library Memorial Hall Upper Nelson Street Chepstow NP16 5PG

DM/2025/01312Planning PermissionApproved
Full

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)
Ward
Chepstow Castle And Larkfield
  1. Received14 Oct
  2. Validated1 Nov
  3. Consult.24 Nov
  4. Target12 Jan
  5. Decided20 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

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Source: Monmouthshire

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