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19 St John Street, Bridgwater, TA6 5HR

08/20/00148Full Planning PermissionApproved
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Approved on 24 October 2020

Council decision: Granted PermissionPlanning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of shop to ground floor flat, and addition of first floor rear extension to form office/place of refuge

Submitted
10 September 2020
Decision level
Planning committee
Council
Sedgemoor
  1. Received10 Sep
  2. Validated10 Sep
  3. Consult.
  4. Target24 Oct
  5. Decided24 Oct

Decided in 44 days (council typically 35)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a rear extension at 19 St John Street, Bridgwater, TA6 5HR. Sedgemoor has handled 2,951 applications of this type. This one was decided in 44 days, 9 days longer than Sedgemoor's typical decision time. The site is in 2 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,334 applications in total for the TA6 postcode area.

97% of full applications at Sedgemoor were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 5 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
TA6 5HR
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bridgwater

Planning application dates

Date validated
10 September 2020
Consultation start
21 September 2020
Target decision date
24 October 2020

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Magnolia House Pillmore Lane TA9 4LB

Planning decision

Statutory period
44 days

Additional information

Documents
36

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)
  • Conservation area: Bridgwater St John'sNext to the site

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.

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