Highworth Methodist Church Vicarage Lane Highworth Swindon SN6 7AD
Approved on 16 December 2025
Council decision: Granted PermissionDelegated (officer decision)2 conditions
Proposal
Installation of 5 outside Air/Air heat pumps units to provide heating (or cooling). The heat pumps will supply 10 indoor units located through the church building.
- Received
- 27 October 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Swindon Borough Council
- Ward
- Blunsdon And Highworth
- ReceivedReceived27 Oct
- ValidatedValidated31 Oct
- Consult.Consultation8 Dec
- TargetTarget Date22 Dec
- DecidedDecided16 Dec
Decided in 46 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a full planning application at Highworth Methodist Church Vicarage Lane Highworth Swindon SN6 7AD. Swindon has handled 1,789 applications of this type. This one was decided in 50 days. The site is in 8 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 57 applications across Blunsdon And Highworth. We hold 2,845 applications in total for the SN6 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
- SN6 7AD
- Application type
- Full Planning Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Highworth
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 31 October 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 8 December 2025
- Consultation start
- 17 November 2025
- Consultation end
- 8 December 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 10 November 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 1 December 2025
- Last date for comments
- 8 December 2025
- Target decision date
- 22 December 2025
- Permission expires
- 16 December 2028
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 52 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14436946
- Documents
- 16
- Constraints
- 5
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: HighworthPart of the site
- 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, 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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