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Wichelstowe Development Area Southern Town Development Swindon

S/COND/23/1574Discharge of Condition ApplicationApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 13 December 2024

Council decision: Conditions Partially DischargedDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Discharge of Condition 9 (Existing Vegetation Protection) Condition 15 (Foul Drainage) Condition 16 (Surface Water Drainage) Condition 31 (Affordable Housing) Condition 35 (Construction Management Plan) from Planning Approval S/13/1524 - Southern Town Expansion including up to 4500 dwellings, employment, commercial, shopping, schools, open space, park and ride, roads, sewers and associated works (Variation of extent of infrastructure, phasing and affordable housing, upon S/TIME/13/1521 by the Local Planning Authority, conditions 1, 62, 66 & 67, 73, 76 - 79, 82, 85, 88 - 90, 93 and 95 - 97).

Received
27 December 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Wroughton And Wichelstowe
  1. Received27 Dec
  2. Validated27 Dec
  3. Consult.12 Nov
  4. Target21 Feb
  5. Decided13 Dec

Decided in 352 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at Wichelstowe Development Area Southern Town Development Swindon. Swindon has handled 321 applications of this type. This one was decided in 352 days, 43 weeks longer than Swindon's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 41 applications across Wroughton And Wichelstowe.

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

Application type
Discharge of Condition Application
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
4500
Parish
Wroughton

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 December 2023
Consultation expiry
12 November 2024
Consultation start
29 October 2024
Consultation end
12 November 2024
Last date for comments
12 November 2024
Target decision date
21 February 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12686900
Documents
33

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • 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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