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152 - 156 Elm Grove Southsea PO5 1LR

24/01099/CPECertificate of Existing Lawful Use/DevWithdrawn
Lawful development certificate

Withdrawn on 5 November 2025

Council decision: Application WithdrawnDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Application for Certificate of Lawful Development for existing use as a Public House

Received
9 September 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
St Jude
  1. Received9 Sep
  2. Validated9 Sep
  3. Consult.18 Oct
  4. Target4 Nov
  5. Decided5 Nov

Decided in 422 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 152 - 156 Elm Grove Southsea PO5 1LR. Portsmouth has handled 149 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 422 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. There has been 1 other application 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.

90% of amendment 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
PO5 1LR
Application type
Certificate of Existing Lawful Use/Dev
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
9 September 2024
Consultation expiry
18 October 2024
Neighbour consultation end
18 October 2024
Last date for comments
18 October 2024
Target decision date
4 November 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent
Emporium Bar
Agent address
152-156 Elm Grove Southsea City Of Portsmouth PO51LR

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13391873
Comments
0
Documents
2
Constraints
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • 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.

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.

© 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.

Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2025
    26 Sep

    Display of 1no. internally illuminated fascia sign

    PendingAdvertisement consent25/01128/ADV

Source: Portsmouth

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