Whitbourne House Residential Care Home Whitbourne Avenue Park North Swindon
Proposal
Demolition of Whitbourne House Care Homes and construct 19 new Affordable Housing dwellings consisting of 8 flats and 11 houses, with associated landscaping.
- Received
- 23 January 2026
- Decided
- 15 April 2026 · Granted Permission
- Decision level
- Planning committee
- Council
- Swindon Borough Council
- Ward
- Liden, Eldene And Park South
- ReceivedSubmitted23 Jan
- ValidatedValidated4 Feb
- Consult.Consultation30 Mar
- TargetTarget Date2 May
- DecidedDecided15 Apr
Decided in 70 days (council typically 49)
This is a full planning application for demolition at Whitbourne House Residential Care Home Whitbourne Avenue Park North Swindon. Swindon has handled 1,790 applications of this type and approves 89% of them, typically deciding them in 56 days. This one was decided in 82 days, 4 weeks longer than Swindon's median. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 8 applications across Liden, Eldene And Park South. We hold 733 applications in total for the SN3 postcode area.
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Additional Information
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Planning constraints
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.
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