144 Union Street Plymouth PL1 3HL

26/00462/GPDGPD All othersApproved

Outline / PiP

Approved on 15 July 2026

Council decision: Prior Approval Required & Given

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Prior approval for partial change of use of office (Class E) to 4no. flats (Class C3)

Received: 30 March 2026
Council: Plymouth City Council
Ward: ST PETER AND THE WATERFRONT
Agent: Tragere Ltd

ReceivedReceived30 Mar
ValidatedValidated22 May
Consult.Consultation18 Jun
TargetTarget Date17 Jul
DecidedDecided15 Jul

Decided in 54 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 144 Union Street Plymouth PL1 3HL. Plymouth has handled 203 applications of this type. This one was decided in 107 days, 8 weeks longer than Plymouth's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 225 applications across ST PETER AND THE WATERFRONT. We hold 469 applications in total for the PL1 postcode area.

95% of outline 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: PL1 3HL
Application type: GPD All others
Scale / size: Small

Planning application dates

Date validated: 22 May 2026
Last date for comments: 18 June 2026
Target decision date: 17 July 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent: Tragere Ltd
Agent address: 15 Clumber Avenue Newcastle-Under-Lyme ST5 3AY

Planning decision

Statutory period: 56 days

Additional information

Comments: 0
Documents: 29
Constraints: 4

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage 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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