Legge House Church Hill Wroughton Swindon SN4 9JS
Approved on 16 July 2026
Council decision: Granted Permission8 conditions
Proposal
Change of use of existing youth residential and day conference centre from use class C2 to use class C3 to provide two dwellings (including the demolition of redundant buildings).
- Received
- 17 March 2026
- Council
- Swindon Borough Council
- Ward
- Wroughton And Wichelstowe
- Agent
- RCC Town Planning Consultancy
- ReceivedReceived17 Mar
- ValidatedValidated17 Mar
- Consult.Consultation11 Jun
- TargetTarget Date17 Jul
- DecidedDecided16 Jul
Decided in 121 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a full planning application for demolition at Legge House Church Hill Wroughton Swindon SN4 9JS. Swindon has handled 1,789 applications of this type. This one was decided in 121 days, 10 weeks longer than Swindon's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 41 applications across Wroughton And Wichelstowe. We hold 901 applications in total for the SN4 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
- SN4 9JS
- Application type
- Full Planning Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Wroughton
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 17 March 2026
- Consultation expiry
- 18 April 2026
- Consultation start
- 26 March 2026
- Consultation end
- 11 June 2026
- Neighbour consultation start
- 26 March 2026
- Neighbour consultation end
- 18 April 2026
- Last date for comments
- 18 April 2026
- Target decision date
- 17 July 2026
Applicant and agent
- Applicant
- Private applicant
- Agent
- RCC Town Planning Consultancy
- Agent address
- 21 Blounts Court Potterne Potterne Wiltshire SN10 5QA United Kingdom
Planning decision
- Case officer
- James Peck
- Statutory period
- 52 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 10 April 2026
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14394731
- Documents
- 39
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Listed building: Grade II: Wall to Churchyard and Street, East and South of Wroughton HouseOn or next to this site · +3 more
- 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 (21)
flood storage areas, conservation 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.
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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