Eton House Hotel 38 Preston Road Yeovil Somerset BA21 3AQ
Refused on 28 June 2024
Council decision: Application RefusedDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Change of use of care home to hotel (retrospective application)
- Received
- 29 September 2023
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 65
- Council
- South Somerset
- Ward
- YEOVIL CENTRAL
- Agent
- Planning and Design Group (UK) Ltd
- ReceivedReceived29 Sep
- ValidatedValidated4 Oct
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date29 Nov
- DecidedDecided28 Jun
Decided in 268 days (council typically 42)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a change of use at Eton House Hotel 38 Preston Road Yeovil Somerset BA21 3AQ. South Somerset has handled 5,592 applications of this type. This one was decided in 273 days, 33 weeks longer than South Somerset's typical decision time. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 31 applications across YEOVIL CENTRAL. We hold 1,640 applications in total for the BA21 postcode area.
96% of full applications at South Somerset were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 6 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- BA21 3AQ
- Application type
- Full Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Yeovil
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 4 October 2023
- Target decision date
- 29 November 2023
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Planning and Design Group (UK) Ltd
- Agent address
- Pure Offices Lake View Drive Sherwood Park Nottingham NG15 0DT
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Appeal
- Appeal status
- Withdrawn
- Appeal result
- Withdrawn
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-12442046
- Documents
- 36
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Yeovil The Park
- Nutrient neutrality catchment: Parrett CatchmentApplies to new homes and overnight accommodation
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.
Also checked, none recorded (20)
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, 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
3 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 202520 Mar
Discharge of condition No.03 (Insect provision, Bat and Nest provision) of planning application 24/02951/FUL
Conditions DischargedDischarge of conditions25/00701/DOC1 - 202417 Dec
Change of use to hotel (C1) with small ground floor commercial space (class E)-retrospective
Application Permitted with ConditionsFull Application24/02951/FUL - 200512 Dec
Application to carry out tree surgery to a Sycamore tree shown as T.5 and a Field Maple shown as T.6 in the…
Application Permitted with ConditionsTree Preservation Order05/03364/TPO
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