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Fairfax House 17 High Street Weston-Super-Mare BS23 1HA

17/P/1832/FFull applicationApproved
Full

Approved on 29 June 2018

Council decision: ApproveDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Re-development of the building to include subdivision of the ground floor retail and use of first floor for retail storage together with conversion of the second and third floors to residential apartments. Change of use class from retail A1) to 3 no units for (A1) retail, (A3) Food & Drink , (A4) Drinking Establishment and (A5) Hot Food Takeaway uses and 5no. garages on ground floor. Change of use from (A1) retail and demolition of 2 existing flats and creation of 19 no. flats for private sale on second and third floors.

Received
18 July 2017
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
North Somerset
  1. Received18 Jul
  2. Validated7 Aug
  3. Consult.7 Sep
  4. Target29 Jun
  5. Decided29 Jun

Decided in 326 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at Fairfax House 17 High Street Weston-Super-Mare BS23 1HA. North Somerset has handled 5,093 applications of this type. This one was decided in 346 days, 41 weeks longer than North Somerset's typical decision time. The site is in the Great Weston conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 2,072 applications in total for the BS23 postcode area.

90% of full applications at North Somerset were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
BS23 1HA
Application type
Full application
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
19
Parish
Weston-super-Mare

Planning application dates

Date validated
7 August 2017
Last date for comments
7 September 2017
Target decision date
29 June 2018

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Rivergate House 70 Redcliffe Street Bristol BS1 6LS

Planning decision

Statutory period
326 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
40

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Conservation area: Weston-super-Mare
  • Article 4 direction: Great Weston Conservation Area, Weston-super-Mare
  • Brownfield land register: Former TJ Hughes Store High Street Weston-super-MareRegister site at or near this address
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© 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.

© 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.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: North Somerset

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