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45 Lower Church Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 2AQ

23/P/1348/FULFull ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 5 October 2023

Council decision: ApproveDelegated (officer decision)7 conditions

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

Proposal

Retrospective application for the change of use to form 3no. flats.

Received
28 June 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
2
Council
North Somerset
Ward
Weston-super-Mare Hillside
Agent
James Venton Planning & Building Design
  1. Received28 Jun
  2. Validated3 Jul
  3. Consult.
  4. Target22 Sep
  5. Decided5 Oct

Decided in 94 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 45 Lower Church Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 2AQ. North Somerset has handled 5,093 applications of this type. This one was decided in 99 days, 6 weeks longer than North Somerset's typical decision time. The site is in the Great Weston conservation area, with 8 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 105 applications across Weston-super-Mare Hillside. We hold 2,070 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 2AQ
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Weston-super-Mare

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 July 2023
Target decision date
22 September 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent
James Venton Planning & Building Design
Architect profile
JAMES VENTON PLANNING & BUILDING DESIGN LTD
Agent address
Wilscombe Wood Cottage Wiveliscombe Taunton TA4 1NJ

Planning decision

Statutory period
81 days

Additional information

Documents
17

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, 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, 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.

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.

Associated applications

  1. 2023
    28 Jun

    Retrospective application for the change of use to form 3no. flats.

    This applicationApprovedFull23/P/1348/FUL
  2. 2023
    28 Jun

    Retrospective application for the change of use to form 3no. flats. Internal reconfiguration at the ground…

    ApprovedListed building consentFiled alongside23/P/1349/LBC

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