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197 Portswood Road Southampton SO17 2NF

24/00572/PA56Prior Approval 56 days Office to ResidApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 3 September 2024

Council decision: No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Permitted Development Assessment - Prior Approval sought for Change of use from Commercial, Business and Service (Use Class E) to mixed use including 2 x one bed flats (Use Class C3)

Received
29 May 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
4
Ward
Portswood
  1. Received29 May
  2. Validated29 May
  3. Consult.21 Jun
  4. Target23 Jul
  5. Decided3 Sep

Decided in 97 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 197 Portswood Road Southampton SO17 2NF. Southampton has handled 101 applications of this type. This one was decided in 97 days, 7 weeks longer than Southampton's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 36 applications across Portswood. We hold 149 applications in total for the SO17 postcode area.

95% of outline applications at Southampton City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
SO17 2NF
Application type
Prior Approval 56 days Office to Resid
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 May 2024
Consultation expiry
21 June 2024
Neighbour consultation start
31 May 2024
Neighbour consultation end
21 June 2024
Last date for comments
28 June 2024
Target decision date
23 July 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Mr Balbinder Heer 64 Marlborough Gardens Hedge End Southampton SO30 2UT

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Additional information

Documents
8
Constraints
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Article 4 direction: Hmo
  • Nutrient neutrality catchment: Solent: Includes Chichester and Langstone Harbours SPA/Ramsar, Solent and Southampton Wat…Applies to new homes and overnight accommodation
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, tree preservation orders, 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.

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

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2026
    8 Jun

    Erection of a single-storey rear extension (retrospective).

    PendingApplication26/00660/FUL

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