Empire House 5 Kings Road Southsea PO5 4DJ
Approved on 23 May 2024
Council decision: Prior notification required and grantedDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Application for prior approval (Schedule 2, Part 3, Class MA) for change of use of offices (Class E) to 11no. residential apartments (Class C3)
- Received
- 11 March 2024
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Portsmouth City Council
- Ward
- St Thomas
- Agent
- D&M Planning Ltd
- ReceivedReceived11 Mar
- ValidatedValidated11 Mar
- Consult.Consultation17 May
- TargetTarget Date6 May
- DecidedDecided23 May
Decided in 73 days
About this application
This is a planning application for a change of use at Empire House 5 Kings Road Southsea PO5 4DJ. Portsmouth has handled 1,334 applications of this type. This one was decided in 73 days, 2 weeks longer than Portsmouth's typical decision time. The site is in 5 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 28 applications across St Thomas. We hold 583 applications in total for the PO5 postcode area.
Application details
- Postcode
- PO5 4DJ
- Application type
- Commercial Prior Approvals
- Scale / size
- Medium
- Number of dwellings
- 11
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 11 March 2024
- Consultation expiry
- 17 May 2024
- Consultation start
- 24 April 2024
- Neighbour consultation start
- 24 April 2024
- Neighbour consultation end
- 17 May 2024
- Last date for comments
- 17 May 2024
- Target decision date
- 6 May 2024
- Permission expires
- 23 May 2029
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- D&M Planning Ltd
- Agent address
- 1A High Street Godalming GU7 1AZ
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: TheTerracesPart of the 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, 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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