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83 Balfour Road Portsmouth PO2 0NH

25/00048/GPDCGeneral Permitted DevelopmentRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 8 January 2026

Council decision: Prior notification required and refusedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Construction of single storey rear extension with flat roof, extending 4.5m beyond the rear wall, with a height of 3m to the eaves and maximum height of 3.2m

Received
2 December 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Hilsea
  1. Received2 Dec
  2. Validated2 Dec
  3. Consult.31 Dec
  4. Target12 Jan
  5. Decided8 Jan

Decided in 37 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a single storey rear extension at 83 Balfour Road Portsmouth PO2 0NH. Portsmouth has handled 164 applications of this type. This one was decided in 37 days, 3 weeks quicker than Portsmouth's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 15 applications across Hilsea. We hold 99 applications in total for the PO2 postcode area.

86% of outline 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
PO2 0NH
Application type
General Permitted Development
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
2 December 2025
Consultation expiry
31 December 2025
Neighbour consultation start
2 December 2025
Neighbour consultation end
31 December 2025
Last date for comments
31 December 2025
Target decision date
12 January 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
1 Whitfield Way Northampton NN2 8LG

Planning decision

Statutory period
41 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14506679
Documents
3
Constraints
1

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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.

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.

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