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St Albern Sandwick Shetland ZE2 9HW

2025/255/PPFPlanning Permission FullApproved
Full

Approved on 3 February 2026

Council decision: Grant subject to conditionsDelegated (officer decision)7 conditions

Proposal

To convert an existing single-storey garage to form a single-storey self-contained residential unit, including the construction of a single-storey porch and the installation of a surface water drainage system.

Received
3 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
4
Ward
Sandwick
Agent
Nee Gibson Architects
  1. Received3 Oct
  2. Validated7 Oct
  3. Consult.31 Dec
  4. Target7 Dec
  5. Decided3 Feb

Decided in 119 days (council typically 35)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a porch at St Albern Sandwick Shetland ZE2 9HW. Shetlands has handled 480 applications of this type. This one was decided in 123 days, 13 weeks longer than Shetlands's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 2 applications across Sandwick. We hold 635 applications in total for the ZE2 postcode area.

99% of full applications at Shetland Islands Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 5 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
ZE2 9HW
Application type
Planning Permission Full
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
SANDWICK

Planning application dates

Date validated
7 October 2025
Consultation expiry
25 February 2026
Consultation start
17 December 2025
Consultation end
31 December 2025
Neighbour consultation start
4 February 2026
Neighbour consultation end
25 February 2026
Last date for comments
25 February 2026
Target decision date
7 December 2025
Permission expires
2 February 2029

Applicant and agent

Agent
Nee Gibson Architects
Agent address
72A Commercial Street Lerwick UK ZE1 0DL

Planning decision

Case officer
Krishnah Priya Ragunath
Statutory period
61 days

Publicity

Last advertised
11 December 2025
Advertisement expiry
25 December 2025

Additional information

Documents
20
Constraints
9

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Source: Shetlands

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