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University Of Nottingham Castle Meadow Campus, Howard House Castle Meadow Road Nottingham Nottingham City NG2 1AB

25/00462/PFUL3Full planning applicationApproved
Full

Approved on 9 May 2025

Council decision: Grant conditional permissionDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Change of Use from Class E (Offices) to Class F1 (University) for Building D (Howard House) on Castle Meadow Campus

Received
17 March 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Castle (May 2019)
  1. Received17 Mar
  2. Validated17 Mar
  3. Consult.29 Mar
  4. Target12 May
  5. Decided9 May

Decided in 53 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at University Of Nottingham Castle Meadow Campus, Howard House Castle Meadow Road Nottingham Nottingham City NG2 1AB. Nottingham has handled 1,388 applications of this type. This one was decided in 53 days, 3 days quicker than Nottingham's typical decision time. The site is in 2 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 191 applications across Castle (May 2019). We hold 1,182 applications in total for the NG2 postcode area.

91% of full applications at Nottingham City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
NG2 1AB
Application type
Full planning application
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 March 2025
Consultation expiry
16 April 2025
Consultation start
28 March 2025
Consultation end
29 March 2025
Last date for comments
16 April 2025
Target decision date
12 May 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
26 March 2025
Site notice end
16 April 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13855982
Documents
4
Constraints
9

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, 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.

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