Albemarle House Osborne Road Southsea PO5 3LB
Approved on 3 November 2020
Council decision: Prior notification required and grantedDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Application for prior approval (Class O) relating to the change of use of upper ground floor from office (Class B1) to 2no. one-bedroom apartments (Class C3)
- Received
- 1 September 2020
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Portsmouth City Council
- Ward
- St Jude
- ReceivedReceived1 Sep
- ValidatedValidated2 Sep
- Consult.Consultation14 Oct
- TargetTarget Date28 Oct
- DecidedDecided3 Nov
Decided in 62 days
About this application
This is a planning application for a change of use at Albemarle House Osborne Road Southsea PO5 3LB. Portsmouth has handled 1,334 applications of this type. This one was decided in 63 days, 7 days longer than Portsmouth's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 28 applications across St Jude. We hold 583 applications in total for the PO5 postcode area.
Application details
- Postcode
- PO5 3LB
- Application type
- Commercial Prior Approvals
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 2 September 2020
- Consultation expiry
- 14 October 2020
- Consultation start
- 16 September 2020
- Neighbour consultation start
- 16 September 2020
- Neighbour consultation end
- 14 October 2020
- Last date for comments
- 14 October 2020
- Target decision date
- 28 October 2020
- Decision issued
- 5 November 2020
- Permission expires
- 5 November 2025
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- FAO Mr Carl Leroy-Smith
- Agent address
- 97B Waverley Road Southsea PO5 2PL
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- 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 (20)
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, 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.
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