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Former HSS Hire Shop St Michaels Street Shrewsbury Shropshire SY1 2ES

23/03503/FULFull Planning ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 24 November 2023

Council decision: Grant PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of the existing building from commercial (Class E) to residential (Class C3) to create 8No. flats, following an upward extension with associated landscaping, cycle parking and refuse storage

Received
9 August 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
6
Ward
Quarry And Coton Hill
  1. Received9 Aug
  2. Validated9 Aug
  3. Consult.9 Nov
  4. Target4 Oct
  5. Decided24 Nov

Decided in 107 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Former HSS Hire Shop St Michaels Street Shrewsbury Shropshire SY1 2ES. Shropshire has handled 6,026 applications of this type. This one was decided in 107 days, 9 weeks longer than Shropshire's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building 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 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
SY1 2ES
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Shrewsbury Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
9 August 2023
Consultation expiry
9 November 2023
Consultation end
9 November 2023
Target decision date
4 October 2023
Permission expires
24 November 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
200 Dukes Ride Crowthorne RG45 6DS

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
29 August 2023
Site notice end
19 September 2023

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12352748
Documents
19

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Brownfield land register: Former HSS Hire Shop, St Michaels Street, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY1 2ESRegister site at or near this address
  • 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, 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

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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