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105A Commercial Road Charles Dickens Portsmouth PO1 1BQ

19/01255/FULFull ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 18 September 2019

Council decision: Temporary PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Temporary change of use from Retail (Class A1) to Digital Training Centre (Class D1) for a period of 6 months.

Received
16 August 2019
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Charles Dickens
  1. Received16 Aug
  2. Validated19 Aug
  3. Consult.9 Sep
  4. Target14 Oct
  5. Decided18 Sep

Decided in 30 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 105A Commercial Road Charles Dickens Portsmouth PO1 1BQ. Portsmouth has handled 277 applications of this type. This one was decided in 33 days, 3 weeks quicker than Portsmouth's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 17 applications across Charles Dickens. We hold 195 applications in total for the PO1 postcode area.

85% of full applications at Portsmouth City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
PO1 1BQ
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
19 August 2019
Consultation expiry
11 September 2019
Consultation start
19 August 2019
Consultation end
9 September 2019
Neighbour consultation start
19 August 2019
Neighbour consultation end
10 September 2019
Last date for comments
11 September 2019
Target decision date
14 October 2019
Permission expires
18 September 2022

Applicant and agent

Agent
FAO Miss Robin Jones
Agent address
CBRE 10th Floor One St Peters Square Manchester M2 3DE

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
21 August 2019
Site notice end
11 September 2019

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-08071892
Comments
0
Documents
9
Constraints
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Listed building: Grade II: Halifax Building SocietyOn or next to this site
  • Nutrient neutrality catchment: Solent: Includes Chichester and Langstone Harbours SPA/Ramsar, Solent and Southampton Wat…Applies to new homes and overnight accommodation
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (19)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves and heritage coasts.

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

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© 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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