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Former Honda UK Manufacturing Highworth Road Swindon

S/COND/25/0871Discharge of Condition ApplicationApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 19 August 2025

Council decision: Conditions DischargedDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Discharge of Conditions (17) External Lighting (42) Surface Water Drainage Scheme (46) BREEAM from previous application S/OUT/22/0284 - Hybrid application for the development of car manufacturing plant including Outline details (all matters reserved) for employment development including flexible Class E (g)/B2 general industrial/B8 storage and distribution uses and a multipurpose hub building, including associated development, accesses, earthworks and infrastructure and, Full details for the demolition of all buildings, alterations to existing northern and southern accesses, construction of internal estate roads, strategic structural landscaping, drainage infrastructure, earthworks and erection of a Class B8 warehouse and associated development, accesses and infrastructure for Unit 8B only.

Received
10 July 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
St Margaret And South Marston
  1. Received10 Jul
  2. Validated10 Jul
  3. Consult.5 Aug
  4. Target4 Sep
  5. Decided19 Aug

Decided in 40 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at Former Honda UK Manufacturing Highworth Road Swindon. Swindon has handled 321 applications of this type. This one was decided in 40 days, 9 days quicker than Swindon's typical decision time. There have been 18 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 64 applications across St Margaret And South Marston.

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
Small
Parish
Stratton St Margaret

Planning application dates

Date validated
10 July 2025
Consultation expiry
5 August 2025
Consultation start
15 July 2025
Consultation end
5 August 2025
Last date for comments
5 August 2025
Target decision date
4 September 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Stantec
Agent address
Stantec 2 Kings Hill Avenue Kings Hill West Malling ME19 4AQ United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14126996
Documents
16
Constraints
4

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.

Planning history at this site

18 other applications at this property, newest first.

  1. 2026
    29 Jul

    Non Material Amendment from previous application S/OUT/22/0284

    ApprovedNon-material amendmentS/AMEND/26/0950
  2. 2026
    28 Jul

    Discharge of Conditions 76, Verification report 110 Invasive species &121 drainage from previous application…

    PendingDischarge of conditionsS/COND/26/0942
  3. 2026
    29 Jun

    Discharge of Conditions 9 & 65 footway/cycleway from previous application S/AMEND/26/0326

    PendingDischarge of conditionsS/COND/26/0826
  4. 2026
    5 May

    Partial Discharge of Condition (46) (Unit 1) BREEAM design stage certificate from previous application…

    ApprovedDischarge of conditionsS/COND/26/0558
  5. 2026
    16 Mar

    Partial Discharge of Condition (Unit 4) (38) Contamination Remediation Verification Scheme from previous…

    Conditions Partially DischargedDischarge of conditionsS/COND/26/0346
  6. 2026
    11 Mar

    Non-material amendment following grant of planning permission ref. S/OUT/22/0284

    ApprovedNon-material amendmentS/AMEND/26/0326

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