Unit A 59 Main Street Seamer Scarborough North Yorkshire YO12 4QD
Approved on 16 March 2026
Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)3 conditions
Proposal
Change of use from a Car Showroom (Sui Generis) to an Indoor Children's Play Facility (Sui Generis) (Retrospective)
- Received
- 20 July 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 4
- Council
- Scarborough
- Ward
- Seamer
- ReceivedReceived20 Jul
- ValidatedValidated27 Aug
- Consult.Consultation23 Sep
- TargetTarget Date22 Oct
- DecidedDecided16 Mar
Decided in 201 days (council typically 91)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a change of use at Unit A 59 Main Street Seamer Scarborough North Yorkshire YO12 4QD. Scarborough has handled 2,257 applications of this type. This one was decided in 239 days, 21 weeks longer than Scarborough's typical decision time. The site is in the Seamer conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,513 applications in total for the YO12 postcode area.
90% of full applications at Scarborough were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 13 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- YO12 4QD
- Application type
- Full permission
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Seamer (Scarborough)
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 27 August 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 11 October 2025
- Consultation start
- 2 September 2025
- Consultation end
- 23 September 2025
- Last date for comments
- 11 October 2025
- Target decision date
- 22 October 2025
- Permission expires
- 16 March 2029
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- 11 St James Road Bridlington YO15 3PF United Kingdom
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 18 September 2025
- Advertisement expiry
- 9 October 2025
- Site notice start
- 17 September 2025
- Site notice end
- 11 October 2025
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14177815
- Documents
- 19
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Seamer
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.
Also checked, none recorded (21)
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, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.
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.
Source: Scarborough
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