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81 Locking Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 3DW

23/P/2462/FULFull ApplicationRefused
Full

Refused on 23 February 2024

Council decision: RefuseDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Change of Use of Care Home to 10no. bed HMO (House of Multiple Occupation)

Received
9 November 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
4
Council
North Somerset
Ward
Weston-super-Mare Central
Agent
James Venton Planning & Building Design
  1. Received9 Nov
  2. Validated30 Nov
  3. Consult.
  4. Target23 Feb
  5. Decided23 Feb

Decided in 85 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 81 Locking Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 3DW. North Somerset has handled 5,093 applications of this type. This one was decided in 106 days, 7 weeks longer than North Somerset's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 85 applications across Weston-super-Mare Central. 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 3DW
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Weston-super-Mare

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 November 2023
Target decision date
23 February 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent
James Venton Planning & Building Design
Architect profile
JAMES VENTON PLANNING & BUILDING DESIGN LTD
Agent address
Unit 13 Wiveliscombe Enterprise Centre Sandys Moor Wiveliscombe Somerset TA4 2DZ

Planning decision

Statutory period
85 days

Additional information

Documents
19

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (24)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, 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.

Source: North Somerset

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