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Union House 3 High Street Weston-super-Mare BS23 1HA

18/P/3756/COAPrior App Part 3O B1(a) offices to resRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 27 September 2018

Council decision: Prior approval - required and refuseDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Prior Approval for the change of use of first and second offices (Use Class B1(a)) to 8no. two bedroom flats (Use Class C3)

Received
17 July 2018
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
North Somerset
Ward
Weston-super-Mare Central
  1. Received17 Jul
  2. Validated3 Aug
  3. Consult.29 Aug
  4. Target28 Sep
  5. Decided27 Sep

Decided in 55 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Union House 3 High Street Weston-super-Mare BS23 1HA. North Somerset has handled 683 applications of this type. This one was decided in 72 days, 2 weeks longer than North Somerset's typical decision time. The site is in the Great Weston conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 85 applications across Weston-super-Mare Central. We hold 2,072 applications in total for the BS23 postcode area.

73% of outline 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
Prior App Part 3O B1(a) offices to res
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Weston-super-Mare

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 August 2018
Last date for comments
29 August 2018
Target decision date
28 September 2018

Applicant and agent

Agent address
28 Brean Down Avenue Weston-super-Mare BS23 4JQ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
13

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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