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35 Ashcombe Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 3DT

26/P/0396/LDPs192 Lawful use/development-proposedApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 20 March 2026

Council decision: Approve (Lawful)Delegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Certification of Lawful Development for the change of use of existing dwelling to form a 6-bed HMO.

Received
24 February 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Council
North Somerset
Ward
Weston-super-Mare Central
Agent
Metcalfe Design Ltd
  1. Received24 Feb
  2. Validated24 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided20 Mar

Decided in 24 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 35 Ashcombe Road Weston-super-Mare BS23 3DT. North Somerset has handled 683 applications of this type. This one was decided in 24 days, 5 weeks quicker than North Somerset's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 83 applications across Weston-super-Mare Central. We hold 2,072 applications in total for the BS23 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
BS23 3DT
Application type
s192 Lawful use/development-proposed
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Weston-super-Mare

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 February 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Metcalfe Design Ltd
Architect profile
METCALFE DESIGN LTD
Agent address
Flat 1, 10 Woodstock Road Redland Bristol BS6 7EJ
Applicant company

Essentialsco Ltd

Company number 14576492

Status
Active
Type
Private limited company
Incorporated
6 Jan 2023 (3 years old)
Nature of business
Other letting and operating of own or leased real estate
Registered office
Bristol
View on Companies House

Company information from Companies House.

Additional information

Documents
7

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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