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Grand Central Hotel 1 Beach Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 1AS

25/P/1633/FULFull ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 20 March 2026

Council decision: ApprovePlanning committee9 conditions

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

Proposal

Full planning application for the conversion of the first and second floors of the vacant hotel into 20 no. residential apartments (Use Class C3). External alterations, including alterations to windows, to Regent Street elevation and rear elevation. A number of minor buildings within the central courtyard to the rear are proposed to be removed.

Received
11 August 2025
Decision level
Planning committee
Public comments
3
Council
North Somerset
Ward
Weston-super-Mare Central
Agent
Stokes Morgan Planning Ltd
  1. Received11 Aug
  2. Validated21 Aug
  3. Consult.
  4. Target27 Mar
  5. Decided20 Mar

Decided in 211 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for window replacement at Grand Central Hotel 1 Beach Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 1AS. North Somerset has handled 5,093 applications of this type. This one was decided in 221 days, 24 weeks longer than North Somerset's typical decision time. The site is in the Great Weston conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There have been 2 other applications 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 1AS
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
20
Parish
Weston-super-Mare

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 August 2025
Target decision date
27 March 2026

Applicant and agent

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

Planning decision

Statutory period
218 days

Additional information

Documents
49

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: Beach Lawns+1 more
  • Article 4 direction: Great Weston Conservation Area, Weston-super-Mare
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)

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, 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. 2025
    11 Aug

    Full planning application for the conversion of the first and second floors of the vacant hotel into 20 no…

    This applicationApprovedFull25/P/1633/FUL
  2. 2025
    11 Aug

    Full planning application for an additional floor of the vacant hotel to provide 8no. residential apartments…

    ApprovedFull ApplicationFiled alongside25/P/1634/FUL

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