Candle Lane Books 28 - 29 Princess Street Shrewsbury Shropshire SY1 1LW
Approved on 15 August 2024
Council decision: Grant PermissionDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Conversion to 2No. residential properties
- Received
- 3 June 2024
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Shropshire Council
- Ward
- Quarry And Coton Hill
- Agent
- MossCo LLP
- ReceivedReceived3 Jun
- ValidatedValidated3 Jun
- Consult.Consultation21 Aug
- TargetTarget Date29 Jul
- DecidedDecided15 Aug
Decided in 73 days (council typically 42)
About this application
This is a full planning application at Candle Lane Books 28 - 29 Princess Street Shrewsbury Shropshire SY1 1LW. Shropshire has handled 6,026 applications of this type. This one was decided in 73 days, 4 weeks longer than Shropshire's typical decision time. There have been 2 other applications 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 1LW
- Application type
- Full Planning Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Shrewsbury Town Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 3 June 2024
- Consultation expiry
- 21 August 2024
- Consultation end
- 21 August 2024
- Target decision date
- 29 July 2024
- Permission expires
- 15 August 2027
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- MossCo LLP
- Agent address
- Brookgate Hall Plealey Shrewsbury Shropshire SY5 0UY
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Advertisement expiry
- 2 July 2024
- Site notice start
- 5 June 2024
- Site notice end
- 26 June 2024
Appeal history
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-13063511
- Documents
- 42
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Shrewsbury
- Brownfield land register: Princess House, The Square, Shrewsbury, ShropshireRegister 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 (19)
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 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.
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ApprovedListed building consentFiled alongside24/01948/LBC
Planning history at this site
1 other application at this property, newest first.
Source: Shropshire
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