49 Telephone Road Southsea PO4 0AU
Approved on 3 March 2026
Council decision: Grant CLUDDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Application for Certificate of Lawful Development for existing use as house in multiple occupation (Class C4)
- Received
- 25 December 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 5
- Council
- Portsmouth City Council
- Ward
- Central Southsea
- Agent
- The Steven Barlow Partnership
- ReceivedReceived25 Dec
- ValidatedValidated29 Dec
- Consult.Consultation3 Feb
- TargetTarget Date23 Feb
- DecidedDecided3 Mar
Decided in 64 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an application to amend a permission at 49 Telephone Road Southsea PO4 0AU. Portsmouth has handled 149 applications of this type. This one was decided in 68 days, 12 days longer than Portsmouth's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 27 applications across Central Southsea. We hold 192 applications in total for the PO4 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
- PO4 0AU
- Application type
- Certificate of Existing Lawful Use/Dev
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 29 December 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 3 February 2026
- Neighbour consultation start
- 6 January 2026
- Neighbour consultation end
- 3 February 2026
- Last date for comments
- 3 February 2026
- Target decision date
- 23 February 2026
- Permission expires
- 3 March 2031
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- The Steven Barlow Partnership
- Agent address
- The Studio, 81 Manor Road Kingston Portsmouth PO1 5LB
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 7 January 2026
- Site notice end
- 28 January 2026
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14582823
- Documents
- 4
- Constraints
- 1
Site constraints
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.
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Source: Portsmouth
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