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Preens Barn Middlehope Shropshire SY7 9JT

23/03497/PAAFCPrior App Agri to flex Commercial UseRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 29 September 2023

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

Proposal

Application for prior approval under Class R of the General Permitted Development Order 2015 (Part 3 of Schedule 2) for the change of use of an agricultural building into a holiday let property (C1)

Received
14 August 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Corvedale
  1. Received14 Aug
  2. Validated14 Aug
  3. Consult.
  4. Target9 Oct
  5. Decided29 Sep

Decided in 46 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Preens Barn Middlehope Shropshire SY7 9JT. Shropshire has handled 1,171 applications of this type. This one was decided in 46 days, 4 days longer than Shropshire's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 13 applications across Corvedale. We hold 2,093 applications in total for the SY7 postcode area.

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

Postcode
SY7 9JT
Application type
Prior App Agri to flex Commercial Use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Diddlebury

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 August 2023
Consultation expiry
4 September 2023
Target decision date
9 October 2023
Permission expires
29 September 2028

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
14 August 2023
Site notice end
4 September 2023

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12372821
Documents
9

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • National Landscape (AONB): Shropshire Hills
  • 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 (21)

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, 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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