Cambrian House Chester Street Shrewsbury Shropshire SY1 1NA
Refused on 17 August 2006
Council decision: RefusePlanning committee
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Proposal
Conversion of offices to provide 24 apartments to include 4 affordable (comprising 8 x one bedroom, 12 x two bedroom, 3 x three bedroom and 1 x penthouse apartment) with provision of internal ground floor car parking and associated alterations to roof, refacing elevations and new glazed entrance canopies.
- Received
- 25 May 2006
- Decision level
- Planning committee
- Public comments
- 7
- Council
- Shropshire Council
- Ward
- Castlefields And Quarry
- ReceivedReceived25 May
- ValidatedValidated25 May
- Consult.Consultation16 Jun
- TargetTarget Date24 Aug
- DecidedDecided17 Aug
Decided in 84 days (council typically 42)
About this application
This is a full planning application at Cambrian House Chester Street Shrewsbury Shropshire SY1 1NA. Shropshire has handled 6,026 applications of this type. This one was decided in 84 days, 6 weeks longer than Shropshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Shrewsbury conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. 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 1NA
- Application type
- Full Planning Application
- Scale / size
- Large
- Number of dwellings
- 24
- Parish
- Shrewsbury Town Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 25 May 2006
- Consultation expiry
- 16 June 2006
- Consultation end
- 16 June 2006
- Neighbour consultation end
- 16 June 2006
- Target decision date
- 24 August 2006
- Committee meeting
- 15 August 2006
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Prestige Design 50 Longden Coleham Shrewsbury SY3 7DH
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 91 days
Appeal
- Appeal status
- Appeal decided
- Appeal result
- Appeal Dismissed
Additional information
- Documents
- 64
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
- Conservation area: Shrewsbury
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, 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.
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Planning history at this site
1 other application at this property, newest first.
Source: Shropshire
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