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The Great Western Hospital Marlborough Road Swindon SN3 6BB

S/26/0071Full Planning ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 17 April 2026

Council decision: Granted Permission1 condition

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Retention of a single storey modular building for use as an outpatient physiotherapy department, previous utilised as an Urgent Treatment Centre whilst an extension to the main hospital building took place.

Received
21 January 2026
Ward
Ridgeway
Agent
Design Buro (Coventry) Ltd
  1. Received21 Jan
  2. Validated6 Feb
  3. Consult.5 Mar
  4. Target24 Apr
  5. Decided17 Apr

Decided in 70 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for an extension at The Great Western Hospital Marlborough Road Swindon SN3 6BB. Swindon has handled 1,789 applications of this type. This one was decided in 86 days, 5 weeks longer than Swindon's typical decision time. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 72 applications across Ridgeway. 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 6BB
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Liddington

Planning application dates

Date validated
6 February 2026
Consultation expiry
13 February 2026
Consultation start
23 January 2026
Consultation end
5 March 2026
Last date for comments
13 February 2026
Target decision date
24 April 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Design Buro (Coventry) Ltd
Architect profile
DESIGN BURO (COVENTRY) LIMITED
Agent address
Design Buro (Coventry) Ltd 15 Waterloo Place Leamington Spa CV32 5LA

Planning decision

Statutory period
52 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14630357
Documents
13
Constraints
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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.

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.

Source: Swindon

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