Holy Cross Alms Houses Abbey Foregate Shrewsbury SY2 6BS
Approved on 27 June 2016
Council decision: Grant PermissionDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Formation of pedestrian access and replacement timber door affecting a Grade II Listed Building
- Received
- 5 May 2016
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 3
- Council
- Shropshire Council
- Ward
- Abbey
- ReceivedReceived5 May
- ValidatedValidated5 May
- Consult.Consultation27 May
- TargetTarget Date30 Jun
- DecidedDecided27 Jun
Decided in 53 days (council typically 42)
About this application
This is a heritage application at Holy Cross Alms Houses Abbey Foregate Shrewsbury SY2 6BS. Shropshire has handled 1,722 applications of this type. This one was decided in 53 days, 11 days longer than Shropshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Shrewsbury conservation area, with 14 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 20 applications across Abbey. We hold 554 applications in total for the SY2 postcode area.
95% of heritage applications at Shropshire Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 6 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- SY2 6BS
- Application type
- Listed Building Consent
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Shrewsbury Town Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 5 May 2016
- Consultation expiry
- 31 May 2016
- Consultation end
- 27 May 2016
- Neighbour consultation end
- 27 May 2016
- Target decision date
- 30 June 2016
- Permission expires
- 27 June 2019
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Pear Tree Cottage Duke Street Soughton Mold CH7 6EJ
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Advertisement expiry
- 31 May 2016
- Site notice start
- 10 May 2016
- Site notice end
- 31 May 2016
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-05089986
- Documents
- 13
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
- Conservation area: Shrewsbury
- Listed building: Grade II: Hospital of the Holy Cross, boundary wall and gate piersOn this site · +4 more
Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions. Ask the council if these matter.
Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.
Also checked, none recorded (20)
flood storage areas, 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.
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Associated applications
- 201612 Jul
Discharge of conditions 3 and 4 attached to planning permission 16/01847/FUL
Discharge Conditions ApprovedDischarge of conditions16/03076/DIS - 20165 May
Formation of pedestrian access and replacement timber door affecting a Grade II Listed Building
This applicationApprovedListed building consent16/01848/LBC
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