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Footpath Adjacent To 34 Conference Avenue Portishead BS20 7LF

25/P/2613/ELAPrior App Part 15B bldg for electricityApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 11 February 2026

Council decision: Prior approval - grantDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Notification of works permitted under Part 15, Class B, of Schedule 2 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 2015; proposed upgrade to the transformer at existing electricity substation located in the footpath and adjacent to 34 Conference Avenue Portishead. The existing 500kVa transformer unit will be upgraded to 1000kVa and the existing 5 way LV feeder pilar will be upgraded to a 7 way feeder and housed in the existing roofed, brick built compound and the doors will be secured with padlocks. THIS IS NOT A PLANNING APPLICATION.

Received
17 December 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
North Somerset
Ward
Portishead East
  1. Received17 Dec
  2. Validated17 Dec
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided11 Feb

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Footpath Adjacent To 34 Conference Avenue Portishead BS20 7LF. North Somerset has handled 683 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 16 applications across Portishead East. We hold 1,578 applications in total for the BS20 postcode area.

74% 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
BS20 7LF
Application type
Prior App Part 15B bldg for electricity
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Portishead

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 December 2025

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
6

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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