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33 Bridge End Road Stratton St Margaret Swindon SN3 4PD

S/26/0272Full Planning ApplicationRefused
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Refused on 27 April 2026

Council decision: Permission RefusedDelegated (officer decision)1 condition3 reasons for refusal

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Proposal

Change of use from the sale and display of Motor Vehicles (Sui Generis) to a hand car wash (Sui Generis), erection of canopies and associated works.

Received
2 March 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
St Margaret And South Marston
  1. Received2 Mar
  2. Validated2 Mar
  3. Consult.30 Mar
  4. Target23 Apr
  5. Decided27 Apr

Decided in 56 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 33 Bridge End Road Stratton St Margaret Swindon SN3 4PD. Swindon has handled 1,789 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days, 7 days longer than Swindon's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 64 applications across St Margaret And South Marston. 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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Why it was refused

  1. The proposal fails to demonstrate through the lack of an acceptable Surface Water Management Strategy that the development would not increase the risk of flooding elsewhere and therefore is found contrary to Policy EN6 of the Swindon Borough Local Plan and para 181 of the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF).
  2. The proposal has provided insufficient information to demonstrate that the proposed development would not result in unacceptable harm to neighbouring amenity in regard to noise and is therefore found contrary to Policy DE1 of the Swindon Borough Local Plan.
  3. The proposal has provided insufficient information to demonstrate the proposed development would not result in unacceptable harm to highway safety or local amenity, notably in terms of the control/management of queuing customers’ vehicles on and off site and the parking of both customers’ and staff vehicles on site, and therefore is found contrary to Policy TR1 of the Swindon Borough Local Plan.

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
SN3 4PD
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Stratton St Margaret

Planning application dates

Date validated
2 March 2026
Consultation expiry
30 March 2026
Consultation start
9 March 2026
Consultation end
30 March 2026
Neighbour consultation start
9 March 2026
Neighbour consultation end
30 March 2026
Last date for comments
30 March 2026
Target decision date
23 April 2026

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Agent address
Ian Sullivan Architecture Ltd 101 Victoria Road Swindon SN1 3BD

Planning decision

Case officer
Harriet Parker
Statutory period
52 days

Additional information

Documents
11
Constraints
4

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.

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