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WH Smith Headquarters WH Smith Site Greenbridge Road Stratton St Margaret Swindon SN3 3JE

S/COND/23/0635Discharge of Condition ApplicationApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 24 July 2023

Council decision: Conditions DischargedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Discharge of Condition 13 - (Implementation of Approved Remediation Scheme) and Condition 33 - (Control of Noise - External) from Outline Planning Permission S/OUT/15/2087 - Outline planning application for up to 134no. residential dwellings (Use Class C3), day nursery/creche (Use Class D1) and intergenerational care accommodation (Use Class C2) with details of access not reserved.

Received
19 May 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
St Margaret And South Marston
  1. Received19 May
  2. Validated19 May
  3. Consult.10 Jul
  4. Target14 Jul
  5. Decided24 Jul

Decided in 66 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at WH Smith Headquarters WH Smith Site Greenbridge Road Stratton St Margaret Swindon SN3 3JE. Swindon has handled 321 applications of this type. This one was decided in 66 days, 2 weeks 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.

96% of conditions 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 3JE
Application type
Discharge of Condition Application
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
134
Parish
Stratton St Margaret

Planning application dates

Date validated
19 May 2023
Consultation expiry
10 July 2023
Consultation start
19 June 2023
Consultation end
10 July 2023
Last date for comments
10 July 2023
Target decision date
14 July 2023

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant

Planning decision

Case officer
Tom Buxton
Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12165086
Documents
21
Constraints
16

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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