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Little Ropes Hinstock Shropshire

23/03302/PMBPAPrior App from Agricultural to DwellingsRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 21 September 2023

Council decision: Prior Approval Required and RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Application for prior approval under Part 3, Class Q of the Town & Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 for the change of use from agricultural to form one residential unit

Received
27 July 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
6
Ward
Cheswardine
Agent
Stephen Locke Associates
  1. Received27 Jul
  2. Validated27 Jul
  3. Consult.17 Aug
  4. Target21 Sep
  5. Decided21 Sep

Decided in 56 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Little Ropes Hinstock Shropshire. Shropshire has handled 1,171 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days, 2 weeks longer than Shropshire's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 13 applications across Cheswardine.

83% of outline 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

Application type
Prior App from Agricultural to Dwellings
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Hinstock

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 July 2023
Consultation expiry
24 August 2023
Consultation end
17 August 2023
Target decision date
21 September 2023
Permission expires
21 September 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent
Stephen Locke Associates
Agent address
Barcaldine Barrack Lane Lilleshall Newport Shropshire TF10 9ER

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
3 August 2023
Site notice end
24 August 2023

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12344011
Documents
29

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 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 (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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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