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

24/P/0048/FULFull ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 4 April 2025

Council decision: ApproveDelegated (officer decision)13 conditions

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

Proposal

Change of use of existing upper floors from commercial (Use Class E) and addition of 2no. extra floors with plant room above to create an Apart-Hotel Development (C1). Existing ground floor retail (Use Class E) retained as existing

Received
9 January 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
2
Council
North Somerset
Ward
Weston-super-Mare Central
Agent
Stokes Morgan Planning Ltd
  1. Received9 Jan
  2. Validated24 May
  3. Consult.
  4. Target28 Apr
  5. Decided4 Apr

Decided in 315 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Union House 3 High Street Weston-super-Mare BS23 1HA. North Somerset has handled 5,093 applications of this type. This one was decided in 451 days, 56 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.

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
Medium
Parish
Weston-super-Mare

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 May 2024
Target decision date
28 April 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Stokes Morgan Planning Ltd
Agent address
41A High Street Nailsea Bristol BS48 1AS

Planning decision

Statutory period
339 days

Additional information

Documents
69

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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