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138A Abbey Foregate Shrewsbury SY2 6AP

17/01137/FULFull Planning ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 8 May 2017

Council decision: Grant PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use to Class B1 (office) from A1 (retail) and installation of two windows and adapt/replace one existing window and door to the rear of the property

Received
20 March 2017
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
5
Ward
Abbey
  1. Received20 Mar
  2. Validated20 Mar
  3. Consult.11 Apr
  4. Target15 May
  5. Decided8 May

Decided in 49 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 138A Abbey Foregate Shrewsbury SY2 6AP. Shropshire has handled 6,026 applications of this type. This one was decided in 49 days, 7 days longer than Shropshire's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There have been 2 other applications 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.

87% of full 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 6AP
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Shrewsbury Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 March 2017
Consultation expiry
18 April 2017
Consultation end
11 April 2017
Neighbour consultation end
11 April 2017
Target decision date
15 May 2017
Permission expires
8 May 2020

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
18 April 2017

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-05887583
Documents
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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

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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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