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County Ground, Foundation Park County Ground Lane Swindon SN1 2FD

S/25/0211Full Planning ApplicationApproved
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Approved on 2 April 2025

Council decision: Granted PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Erection of a statue of John Trollope MBE at front of Foundation Park main building.

Received
24 February 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Central
  1. Received24 Feb
  2. Validated24 Feb
  3. Consult.20 Mar
  4. Target17 Apr
  5. Decided2 Apr

Decided in 37 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application at County Ground, Foundation Park County Ground Lane Swindon SN1 2FD. Swindon has handled 1,789 applications of this type. This one was decided in 37 days, 12 days quicker 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 39 applications across Central. We hold 543 applications in total for the SN1 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
SN1 2FD
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Central Swindon South

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 February 2025
Consultation expiry
20 March 2025
Consultation start
27 February 2025
Consultation end
20 March 2025
Last date for comments
20 March 2025
Target decision date
17 April 2025
Permission expires
2 April 2028

Planning decision

Statutory period
52 days

Publicity

Site notice start
27 February 2024
Site notice end
20 March 2024

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13792355
Documents
12
Constraints
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Listed building: Grade II: Cricket Pavilion, Cricket GroundOn this site
  • Brownfield land register: Former Zarlink Factory, Darby Close, SwindonRegister site at or near this address · +2 more
  • 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 (20)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, 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 and heritage coasts.

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.

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