16 Sussex Road Southsea PO5 3EX
Approved on 3 June 2025
Council decision: Conditional PermissionDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Rear roof extension and other external alterations
- Received
- 4 March 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Portsmouth City Council
- Ward
- St Thomas
- ReceivedReceived4 Mar
- ValidatedValidated4 Mar
- Consult.Consultation23 Apr
- TargetTarget Date29 Apr
- DecidedDecided3 Jun
Decided in 91 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application for an extension at 16 Sussex Road Southsea PO5 3EX. Portsmouth has handled 277 applications of this type. This one was decided in 91 days, 5 weeks longer than Portsmouth's typical decision time. 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.
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
- PO5 3EX
- Application type
- Householder Planning Application
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 4 March 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 14 May 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 2 April 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 23 April 2025
- Last date for comments
- 14 May 2025
- Target decision date
- 29 April 2025
- Permission expires
- 3 June 2028
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- 5 Sussex Road Southsea PO5 3EX
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 4 April 2025
- Advertisement expiry
- 25 April 2025
- Site notice end
- 14 May 2025
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Owen's Southsea
- 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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Source: Portsmouth
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