5B Sheep Street Highworth Swindon SN6 7AA
Approved on 11 May 2023
Council decision: Granted PermissionDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Installation of 2 no. rooflights and internal works to faciliate conversion into a 6 person House in Multiple Occupation.
- Received
- 18 March 2023
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Swindon Borough Council
- Ward
- Blunsdon And Highworth
- Agent
- Ben Williams Home Design and Architectural Services
- ReceivedReceived18 Mar
- ValidatedValidated18 Mar
- Consult.Consultation10 May
- TargetTarget Date9 May
- DecidedDecided11 May
Decided in 54 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a heritage application at 5B Sheep Street Highworth Swindon SN6 7AA. Swindon has handled 154 applications of this type. This one was decided in 54 days, 5 days longer than Swindon's typical decision time. The site is in the Highworth conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 57 applications across Blunsdon And Highworth. We hold 2,845 applications in total for the SN6 postcode area.
97% of heritage 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
- SN6 7AA
- Application type
- Listed Building Consent
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Highworth
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 18 March 2023
- Consultation expiry
- 10 May 2023
- Consultation start
- 17 April 2023
- Consultation end
- 10 May 2023
- Neighbour consultation start
- 17 April 2023
- Neighbour consultation end
- 10 May 2023
- Last date for comments
- 10 May 2023
- Target decision date
- 9 May 2023
- Permission expires
- 11 May 2026
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Ben Williams Home Design and Architectural Services
- Agent address
- Ben Williams Home Design And Architectural Services 7 Hartington Place Carlisle CA1 1HL United Kingdom
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 52 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 28 April 2023
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-12023591
- Documents
- 16
- Constraints
- 9
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Highworth
- 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 (20)
flood storage 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.
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Planning history at this site
2 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 202327 Dec
Discharge of condition 5 (Large-scale detail) from previous approval S/23/0691
Conditions DischargedDischarge of conditionsS/COND/23/1580 - 20234 Oct
Installation of 2 no. rooflights, re-roof of property and replacement of 4 no.windows to the side and…
ApprovedListed building consentS/LBC/23/1230
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