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Former Prison The Dana Shrewsbury SY1 2HT

16/05467/CPECertificate Existing Lawful Use/DevApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 3 March 2017

Council decision: Part Approved Part RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application for Lawful Development Certificate to establish that the existing prison can be reopened for any of the uses set out in the Use Classes Order - C2A Secure Residential Institution - Use for a provision of secure residential accommodation, including use as a prison, young offenders institution, detention centre, secure training centre, custody centre, short term holding centre, secure hospital, secure local authority accommodation or use as a military barracks. Also as detention centre or short term holding centre for immigrants, migrants or refugees; also, that the gymnasium can be reopened for use as a stand alone facility -D2 - gymnasium - for use of existing gymnasium as a stand alone use as consented under planning consent 06/0770/F

Received
1 December 2016
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Quarry And Coton Hill
  1. Received1 Dec
  2. Validated1 Dec
  3. Consult.
  4. Target26 Jan
  5. Decided3 Mar

Decided in 92 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Former Prison The Dana Shrewsbury SY1 2HT. Shropshire has handled 883 applications of this type. This one was decided in 92 days, 7 weeks longer than Shropshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Shrewsbury conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded 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.

87% of amendment 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 2HT
Application type
Certificate Existing Lawful Use/Dev
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Shrewsbury Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
1 December 2016
Target decision date
26 January 2017

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-05577272
Comments
0
Documents
0

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Shrewsbury
  • Listed building: Grade II: Former Her Majesty's Prison ShrewsburyOn this site · +1 more
  • Brownfield land register: Shrewsbury Prison, Dana, ShrewsburyRegister site at or near this address · +1 more
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

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 (19)

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 and heritage coasts.

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

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© 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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