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Eton House Hotel 38 Preston Road Yeovil Somerset BA21 3AQ

24/02951/FULFull ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 31 January 2025

Council decision: Application Permitted with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use to hotel (C1) with small ground floor commercial space (class E)-retrospective

Received
17 December 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
47
Council
South Somerset
Ward
YEOVIL CENTRAL
Agent
Pearce Planning Ltd
  1. Received17 Dec
  2. Validated19 Dec
  3. Consult.
  4. Target13 Feb
  5. Decided31 Jan

Decided in 43 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 5,596 applications of this type. This one was decided in 45 days, 3 days longer than South Somerset's typical decision time. The site is in the Yeovil The Park conservation area. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 31 applications across YEOVIL CENTRAL. We hold 1,641 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
19 December 2024
Target decision date
13 February 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Pearce Planning Ltd
Agent address
The Office Woodspring House 17 Hill Road Clevedon BS21 7NE

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13614484
Documents
24

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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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© 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.

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Associated applications

  1. 2025
    20 Mar

    Discharge of condition No.03 (Insect provision, Bat and Nest provision) of planning application 24/02951/FUL

    Conditions DischargedDischarge of conditions25/00701/DOC1
  2. 2024
    17 Dec

    Change of use to hotel (C1) with small ground floor commercial space (class E)-retrospective

    This applicationApplication Permitted with ConditionsFull24/02951/FUL

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