Burton Grove Farm Highworth Road South Marston Swindon SN3 4SG
Approved on 5 February 2025
Council decision: Granted PermissionDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Change of use of swimming pool building to 2no. dwellings.
- Received
- 11 December 2024
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Swindon Borough Council
- Ward
- St Margaret And South Marston
- Agent
- The Rural Planning Practice
- ReceivedReceived11 Dec
- ValidatedValidated11 Dec
- Consult.Consultation10 Jan
- TargetTarget Date1 Feb
- DecidedDecided5 Feb
Decided in 56 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a change of use at Burton Grove Farm Highworth Road South Marston Swindon SN3 4SG. Swindon has handled 1,789 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days, 7 days longer than Swindon's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 64 applications across St Margaret And South Marston. We hold 747 applications in total for the SN3 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
- SN3 4SG
- Application type
- Full Planning Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- South Marston
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 11 December 2024
- Consultation expiry
- 10 January 2025
- Consultation start
- 17 December 2024
- Consultation end
- 10 January 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 17 December 2024
- Neighbour consultation end
- 10 January 2025
- Last date for comments
- 10 January 2025
- Target decision date
- 1 February 2025
- Permission expires
- 5 February 2028
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- The Rural Planning Practice
- Agent address
- The Rural Planning Practice 53 - 55 High Street Cranbrook TN17 3EE
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 52 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-13606914
- Documents
- 18
- Constraints
- 4
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.
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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© 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.
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