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Old Glais Inn Restaurant And Function Room Birchgrove Road Glais Swansea SA7 9EN

2026/0137/FULFull PlansRefused
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Refused on 5 May 2026

Council decision: RefuseDelegated (officer decision)1 reason for refusal

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Proposal

Change of use to private dwelling

Received
29 January 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
4
Ward
Llansamlet - Area 1
  1. Received29 Jan
  2. Validated27 Feb
  3. Consult.26 Mar
  4. Target24 Apr
  5. Decided5 May

Decided in 67 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Old Glais Inn Restaurant And Function Room Birchgrove Road Glais Swansea SA7 9EN. Swansea has handled 3,947 applications of this type. This one was decided in 96 days, 7 weeks longer than Swansea's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 44 applications across Llansamlet - Area 1. We hold 801 applications in total for the SA7 postcode area.

82% of full applications at City and County of Swansea Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Why it was refused

  1. The proposal would result in the loss of a community facility and it has not been demonstrated that the existing use is no longer viable or that the premises have been appropriately marketed to secure an occupier for the established use, nor has it been demonstrated that there is already an adequate provision of similar accessible community facilities available in the locality or that an alternative facility is to be provided as part of the proposal. The proposal is therefore deemed to be contrary to the requirements of Policies SI 2 and PS 2 of the Swansea Local Development Plan 2019.

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
SA7 9EN
Application type
Full Plans
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 February 2026
Consultation expiry
27 March 2026
Consultation start
5 March 2026
Consultation end
26 March 2026
Neighbour consultation start
5 March 2026
Neighbour consultation end
26 March 2026
Target decision date
24 April 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
6 Heol Tredeg UpperCwmtwrch Swansea Valley Swansea SA9 2XD

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
6 March 2026
Site notice end
27 March 2026

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14565789
Documents
23
Constraints
24

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Source: Swansea

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