The Great Western Hospital Marlborough Road Swindon SN3 6BB
Approved on 21 April 2026
Council decision: Granted Permission7 conditions
Proposal
Renewal of current planning permission for existing Boots Pharmacy Portakabin Building with the addition of a new extension to this existing building to cope with expanding outpatients dispensary services. Located at The Great Western Hospital as the on-site Outpatient Dispensary. Requirement needed for next 5 years.
- Received
- 13 February 2026
- Council
- Swindon Borough Council
- Ward
- Ridgeway
- Agent
- Portakabin Ltd
- ReceivedReceived13 Feb
- ValidatedValidated24 Feb
- Consult.Consultation23 Mar
- TargetTarget Date17 Apr
- DecidedDecided21 Apr
Decided in 56 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 67 days, 3 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
- 24 February 2026
- Consultation expiry
- 23 March 2026
- Consultation start
- 2 March 2026
- Consultation end
- 23 March 2026
- Last date for comments
- 23 March 2026
- Target decision date
- 17 April 2026
Applicant and agent
- Applicant
- Private applicant
- Agent
- Portakabin Ltd
- Agent address
- Portakabin Ltd Bennett Road Highbridge TA9 4PW
Planning decision
- Case officer
- Jo Plumridge
- Statutory period
- 52 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14630451
- Documents
- 13
- Constraints
- 3
Site 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.
A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.
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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.
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© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.
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Planning history at this site
2 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 202612 May
Installation of temporary mobile ward units and temporary fire walls, together with ancillary infrastructure.
PendingApplicationS/26/0598 - 202621 Jan
Retention of a single storey modular building for use as an outpatient physiotherapy department, previous…
ApprovedFull Planning ApplicationS/26/0071
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