Ground Floor Flat, 2A Commercial Road Plymouth PL4 0LD

26/00016/EXUSLDC Existing UseApproved

Lawful development certificate

Approved on 2 March 2026

Council decision: Issue lawful certificate (Existing)Delegated (officer decision)

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Establish use of the ground floor as a flat (Use Class C3)

Received: 6 January 2026
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Plymouth City Council
Ward: SUTTON AND MOUNT GOULD

ReceivedReceived6 Jan
ValidatedValidated8 Jan
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date5 Mar
DecidedDecided2 Mar

Decided in 53 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Ground Floor Flat, 2A Commercial Road Plymouth PL4 0LD. Plymouth has handled 85 applications of this type. This one was decided in 55 days, 6 days longer than Plymouth's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 40 applications across SUTTON AND MOUNT GOULD. We hold 268 applications in total for the PL4 postcode area.

94% of amendment applications at Plymouth City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode: PL4 0LD
Application type: LDC Existing Use
Scale / size: Small

Planning application dates

Date validated: 8 January 2026
Target decision date: 5 March 2026
Permission expires: 2 March 2031

Applicant and agent

Agent address: 38 Lisson Grove Mutley Plymouth PL4 7DN

Planning decision

Statutory period: 56 days

Additional information

Comments: 0
Documents: 6
Constraints: 1

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Article 4 direction: HMOs Mutley, Greenbank, City Centre and surrounding areas
Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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.

Source: Plymouth

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