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Shrewsbury Railway Station Castle Foregate Shrewsbury Shropshire SY1 2DQ

16/04692/LBCListed Building ConsentApproved

Approved on 1 December 2016

Council decision: Grant PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Works to facilitate the change of use from information office to cafe affecting a Grade II Listed Building

Received
13 October 2016
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
16
Ward
Quarry And Coton Hill
  1. Received13 Oct
  2. Validated13 Oct
  3. Consult.11 Nov
  4. Target8 Dec
  5. Decided1 Dec

Decided in 49 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is a heritage application for a change of use at Shrewsbury Railway Station Castle Foregate Shrewsbury Shropshire SY1 2DQ. Shropshire has handled 1,722 applications of this type. This one was decided in 49 days, 7 days longer than Shropshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Shrewsbury conservation area, with 8 listed buildings nearby. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 44 applications across Quarry And Coton Hill. We hold 1,626 applications in total for the SY1 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
SY1 2DQ
Application type
Listed Building Consent
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Shrewsbury Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
13 October 2016
Consultation expiry
22 November 2016
Consultation end
11 November 2016
Neighbour consultation end
11 November 2016
Target decision date
8 December 2016
Permission expires
1 December 2019

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Mr Malcolm Fox Unit 3 Foxoak Business Park Common Road Dunnington YORK YO19 5RZ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
22 November 2016
Site notice start
26 October 2016
Site notice end
16 November 2016

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-05512917
Documents
19

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Flood zone 2: Medium probability (rivers and sea)
  • Conservation area: Shrewsbury
  • Listed building: Grade II: Shrewsbury StationOn or next to this site

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.

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: Shropshire

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