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Welbatch Farm Hookagate Shrewsbury Shropshire SY5 8BA

24/00170/LBCListed Building ConsentApproved

Approved on 4 March 2024

Council decision: Grant PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

The conversion and extension of farm buildings to office space

Received
16 January 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
5
Ward
Longden
  1. Received16 Jan
  2. Validated16 Jan
  3. Consult.13 Feb
  4. Target12 Mar
  5. Decided4 Mar

Decided in 48 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is a heritage application for an extension at Welbatch Farm Hookagate Shrewsbury Shropshire SY5 8BA. Shropshire has handled 1,722 applications of this type. This one was decided in 48 days, 6 days longer than Shropshire's typical decision time. The site is in 2 listed buildings nearby. There have been 10 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 11 applications across Longden. We hold 1,328 applications in total for the SY5 postcode area.

95% of heritage 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
SY5 8BA
Application type
Listed Building Consent
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Longden

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 January 2024
Consultation expiry
20 February 2024
Consultation end
13 February 2024
Target decision date
12 March 2024
Permission expires
4 March 2027

Applicant and agent

Agent
Howie Kent & Co
Agent address
Welbatch Farm Hookagate Dorrington Shrewsbury SY5 8BA

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
20 February 2024
Site notice start
25 January 2024
Site notice end
15 February 2024

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12732528
Documents
15

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

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, 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.

Planning history at this site

10 other applications at this property, newest first.

  1. 2026
    21 Sep

    Construction of a replacement dairy parlour and related ancillary works

    PendingApplication26/03538/FUL
  2. 2024
    4 Mar

    Erection of steel portal framed building

    ApprovedAgricultural Notification24/00887/AGR
  3. 2023
    12 Dec

    The conversion and extension of farm buildings to office space

    ApprovedFull Planning Application23/05347/FUL
  4. 2022
    1 Aug

    Dig and construct a slurry lagoon at Welbatch Farm to store dairy cow slurry. Depth 4.5m with additional…

    ApprovedAgricultural Notification22/03527/AGR
  5. 2021
    10 Feb

    Discharge of Conditions 8 (Lighting) and 9 (Bat/Bird Boxes) associated with planning application number…

    Discharge Conditions ApprovedDischarge of conditions21/00636/DIS
  6. 2020
    21 Aug

    Works to facilitate the conversion of barn to form an office; to include insertion of glass elevations

    ApprovedListed building consent20/03375/LBC

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