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The Old Telephone Exchange, Elmsleigh Road, Staines-upon-Thames, TW18 4PN

15/01247/DEMDemolitionsApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 13 October 2015

Council decision: Application GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Prior notification for the demolition of the existing building

Received
15 September 2015
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Staines
  1. Received15 Sep
  2. Validated15 Sep
  3. Consult.
  4. Target13 Oct
  5. Decided13 Oct

Decided in 28 days

About this application

This is a planning application for demolition at The Old Telephone Exchange, Elmsleigh Road, Staines-upon-Thames, TW18 4PN. Spelthorne has handled 2,770 applications of this type. This one was decided in 28 days, 4 weeks quicker than Spelthorne's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 41 applications across Staines. We hold 1,281 applications in total for the TW18 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
TW18 4PN
Application type
Demolitions
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 September 2015
Consultation expiry
22 October 2015
Target decision date
13 October 2015
Permission expires
13 October 2018

Planning decision

Statutory period
28 days

Publicity

Last advertised
1 October 2015
Advertisement expiry
22 October 2015

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (24)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, 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, 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.

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.

Source: Spelthorne

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