The Windmill Freshbrook Village Centre Freshbrook Swindon SN5 8AE
Approved on 27 April 2017
Council decision: Granted PermissionDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Change of use of part of public highway to outside seating area - Retrospective.
- Received
- 17 February 2017
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 1
- Council
- Swindon Borough Council
- Ward
- Lydiard And Freshbrook
- Agent
- DHA Planning
- ReceivedReceived17 Feb
- ValidatedValidated13 Mar
- Consult.Consultation6 Apr
- TargetTarget Date4 May
- DecidedDecided27 Apr
Decided in 45 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a change of use at The Windmill Freshbrook Village Centre Freshbrook Swindon SN5 8AE. Swindon has handled 1,789 applications of this type. This one was decided in 69 days, 3 weeks longer than Swindon's typical decision time. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 13 applications across Lydiard And Freshbrook. We hold 814 applications in total for the SN5 postcode area.
93% of full applications at Swindon Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- SN5 8AE
- Application type
- Full Planning Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- West Swindon
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 13 March 2017
- Consultation expiry
- 6 April 2017
- Consultation start
- 16 March 2017
- Consultation end
- 6 April 2017
- Neighbour consultation start
- 16 March 2017
- Neighbour consultation end
- 6 April 2017
- Last date for comments
- 6 April 2017
- Target decision date
- 4 May 2017
- Permission expires
- 27 April 2020
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- DHA Planning
- Agent address
- DHA Planning Eclipse House Eclipse Park Sittingbourne Road Maidstone ME14 3EN
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 52 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-05822092
- Documents
- 15
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- 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 (22)
flood storage areas, conservation 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, 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.
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Planning history at this site
3 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 201525 Mar
Change of use of part of public highway for an external seating area.
ApprovedFull Planning ApplicationS/15/0487 - 201425 Jul
Erection of children's play climbing frame.
ApprovedFull Planning ApplicationS/14/1267 - 201328 Jan
Display of 1 no. free standing totem sign.
ApprovedAdvertisement consentS/ADV/13/0105
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