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Pearl Assurance House 5 Friar Lane Nottingham Nottingham City NG1 6BT

25/02142/PACPDPrior Approval of B1 to C3 Use PDApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 4 February 2026

Council decision: Prior approval not requiredDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of the second to eighth floor from Class E to C3 to create 42 residential flats. A cycle store is also proposed to the upper ground floor.

Received
19 November 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Castle (May 2019)
Agent
Seb Planning and Development Ltd
  1. Received19 Nov
  2. Validated6 Jan
  3. Consult.29 Jan
  4. Target3 Mar
  5. Decided4 Feb

Decided in 29 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Pearl Assurance House 5 Friar Lane Nottingham Nottingham City NG1 6BT. Nottingham has handled 173 applications of this type. This one was decided in 77 days, 3 weeks longer than Nottingham's typical decision time. The site is in the Old Market Square conservation area, with 5 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 191 applications across Castle (May 2019). We hold 389 applications in total for the NG1 postcode area.

94% of outline 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
NG1 6BT
Application type
Prior Approval of B1 to C3 Use PD
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
42

Planning application dates

Date validated
6 January 2026
Consultation expiry
5 February 2026
Consultation start
6 January 2026
Consultation end
29 January 2026
Neighbour consultation start
6 January 2026
Neighbour consultation end
30 January 2026
Last date for comments
5 February 2026
Target decision date
3 March 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Seb Planning and Development Ltd
Agent address
6 Clumber Avenue Beeston Nottingham NG9 4BJ United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
15 January 2026
Advertisement expiry
5 February 2026

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14321892
Documents
11
Constraints
11

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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 (19)

flood storage areas, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, 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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