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Kings Theatre Albert Road Southsea PO5 2QJ

25/00607/LBCListed Building ConsentApproved

Approved on 24 July 2025

Council decision: Conditional ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)

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Proposal

Partial demolition of 24-28 Albert road with facade retention, construction of new foyer, bar, toilets, studio and circulation spaces. Alterations and repair works to the Grade II* listed building, including investigation works to the Portico

Received
26 May 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
St Jude
Agent
Pritchard Architecture
  1. Received26 May
  2. Validated27 May
  3. Consult.15 Jul
  4. Target22 Jul
  5. Decided24 Jul

Decided in 58 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a heritage application for demolition at Kings Theatre Albert Road Southsea PO5 2QJ. Portsmouth has handled 58 applications of this type. This one was decided in 59 days, 3 days longer than Portsmouth's typical decision time. The site is in the Hitchin conservation area, with 16 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications 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.

86% of heritage 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 2QJ
Application type
Listed Building Consent
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 May 2025
Consultation expiry
25 July 2025
Consultation start
17 June 2025
Consultation end
15 July 2025
Neighbour consultation start
17 June 2025
Neighbour consultation end
18 July 2025
Last date for comments
25 July 2025
Target decision date
22 July 2025
Permission expires
24 July 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent
Pritchard Architecture
Architect profile
PRITCHARD ARCHITECTURE LIMITED
Agent address
Pritchard Architecture Porter?s Lodge, College Road HM Naval Base Portsmouth PO1 3LJ United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
4 July 2025
Advertisement expiry
25 July 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14011386
Comments
0
Documents
53
Constraints
5

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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, conservation areas, 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

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© 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.

Source: Portsmouth

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