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

26/00259/PACPDPrior Approval of B1 to C3 Use PDApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 9 April 2026

Council decision: Prior Approval Given1 condition

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use under Class MA of the GDPO of the ninth floor from Class E to C3 to create 2 residential flats.

Received
17 February 2026
Ward
Castle (May 2019)
Agent
Seb Planning and Development Ltd
  1. Received17 Feb
  2. Validated19 Feb
  3. Consult.19 Mar
  4. Target16 Apr
  5. Decided9 Apr

Decided in 49 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 51 days, 5 days quicker than Nottingham's typical decision time. The site is in the Old Market Square conservation area, with 7 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
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
19 February 2026
Consultation expiry
19 March 2026
Consultation start
23 February 2026
Last date for comments
19 March 2026
Target decision date
16 April 2026

Applicant and agent

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

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
26 February 2026
Advertisement expiry
19 March 2026
Site notice start
24 February 2026
Site notice end
17 March 2026

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14698132
Documents
6
Constraints
10

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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