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Rowenburgh High Street Wanborough Swindon SN4 0AE

S/25/0294Full Planning ApplicationRefused
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Refused on 7 November 2025

Council decision: Permission RefusedDelegated (officer decision)1 reason for refusal

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Proposal

Creation of a dropped kerb and new driveway.

Received
10 March 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Ridgeway
  1. Received10 Mar
  2. Validated10 Mar
  3. Consult.3 May
  4. Target1 May
  5. Decided7 Nov

Decided in 242 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Rowenburgh High Street Wanborough Swindon SN4 0AE. Swindon has handled 1,789 applications of this type. This one was decided in 242 days, 28 weeks longer than Swindon's typical decision time. The site is in the Lower Wanborough conservation area. There have been 4 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 70 applications across Ridgeway. We hold 902 applications in total for the SN4 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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Why it was refused

  1. The proposed front dropped kerb and vehicular crossover would appear as incongruous built features in the street-scene for Wanborough’s High Street that would lead to the undesirable loss of grassed land and thereby have a detrimental impact on the visual amenity of the local area. Furthermore, by way of the positive contribution that the front grass verge makes to the special historic character of the Lower Wanborough Conservation Area, the proposed removal of part of the front grass verge would result in ‘less than substantial’ harm to the Conservation Area as a designated heritage asset. Insufficient public benefits would arise from the proposed scheme to outweigh the identified ‘less than substantial’ harm to the designated heritage asset. The proposal is therefore deemed to be contrary to policies DE1 & EN10 of the Swindon Borough Local Plan (to 2026) and sections 12 & 16 of the NPPF (updated December 2024).

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
SN4 0AE
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Wanborough

Planning application dates

Date validated
10 March 2025
Consultation expiry
3 May 2025
Consultation start
10 April 2025
Consultation end
3 May 2025
Neighbour consultation start
10 April 2025
Neighbour consultation end
26 April 2025
Last date for comments
3 May 2025
Target decision date
1 May 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
52 days

Publicity

Last advertised
21 March 2025
Site notice start
4 April 2025
Site notice end
27 April 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13782366
Documents
32
Constraints
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Lower Wanborough
  • 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 (21)

flood storage 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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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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.

© 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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