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17A Park Road Nottingham Nottingham City NG7 1LB

26/01389/PFUL3Refused

Refused on 4 November 2026

Council decision: Refuse permission3 reasons for refusal

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

Proposal

Change of use of the existing workshop and store building to provide a local retail shop at ground floor level (Use Class E) and two self-contained one-bedroom flats (Use Class C3), comprising one flat at first floor level and one flat within the second floor (loft). The proposal includes internal alterations to facilitate the new uses, the installation of rooflights to serve the loft accommodation, cycle and bin storage. No other changes proposed.

Received
5 August 2026
Public comments
0 · last counted 31 October 2026
Ward
Lenton And Wollaton East (May 2019)
  1. Received5 Aug
  2. Validated22 Sep
  3. Consult.1 Nov
  4. Target
  5. Decided4 Nov

Decided in 43 days

About this application

This is a planning application for a change of use at 17A Park Road Nottingham Nottingham City NG7 1LB. Nottingham has handled 3,848 applications of this type. This one was decided in 43 days, 13 days quicker than Nottingham's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 109 applications across Lenton And Wollaton East (May 2019). We hold 736 applications in total for the NG7 postcode area.

Why it was refused

  1. The proposed development, by reason of the introduction of a ground floor retail unit and two self-contained residential flats within a modest and constrained former workshop building, would represent an over-intensive form of development that exceeds the capacity of the site and building to satisfactorily accommodate the proposed uses. The proposal is therefore contrary to Policy 10 of the ACS and Policies DE1 and DE2 of the LAPP.
  2. The proposed second-floor flat would provide inadequate living accommodation by virtue of its restricted size, limited headroom and failure to meet the Nationally Described Space Standards, providing approximately 29 square metres of usable floorspace. The proposal fails to provide an acceptable standard of living conditions for future occupiers and is therefore contrary to Policy 10 of the ACS and Policy DE1 of the LAPP.
  3. The proposed retail unit constitutes a main town centre use within an out-of-centre location. The applicant has failed to satisfactorily demonstrate that there are no suitable and available sequentially preferable sites capable of accommodating the proposed use, nor that the proposal would meet an identified local retail deficiency. The proposal therefore conflicts with the sequential approach to retail development and the plan-led hierarchy of centres, contrary to Policy 6 of the ACS, Policy SH4 of the LAPP and Policy TC3 of the NPPF (2026).

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
NG7 1LB
Parish
Not Available

Planning application dates

Date validated
22 September 2026
Consultation end
1 November 2026

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant

Planning decision

Case officer
Ms Jennifer Cole

Additional information

Documents
4

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 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

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 (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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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