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50 Birnbeck Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 2EE

25/P/0417/CM2APrior App Part 3MA Class E to ResRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 23 April 2025

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 ground floor restaurant (Use Class E) to 2no. flats (Use Class C3)

Received
26 February 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Council
North Somerset
Ward
Weston-super-Mare Hillside
Agent
JLS Design Services
  1. Received26 Feb
  2. Validated26 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided23 Apr

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 50 Birnbeck Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 2EE. North Somerset has handled 683 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days. The site is in the Great Weston conservation area, with 1 listed building 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.

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 2EE
Application type
Prior App Part 3MA Class E to Res
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Weston-super-Mare

Planning application dates

Date validated
26 February 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
JLS Design Services
Agent address
23 High Street Yatton BS49 4JD

Additional information

Documents
11

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.

Source: North Somerset

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