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Victoria Primary School Lower Harpers Road Abersychan Pontypool Torfaen NP4 8PW

20/P/0066/FULFull ApplicationApproved
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Approved on 8 April 2020

Council decision: Approve with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of former school to office accommodation (B1). Works include the demolition of rear demountables and for this area to be landscaped with the provision of two disabled parking spaces and a maintanence access. A new car park is proposed on the existing front play yard area with gated access and vision splay.

Received
5 February 2020
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Abersychan
  1. Received5 Feb
  2. Validated11 Feb
  3. Consult.3 Mar
  4. Target24 Mar
  5. Decided8 Apr

Decided in 57 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at Victoria Primary School Lower Harpers Road Abersychan Pontypool Torfaen NP4 8PW. Torfaen has handled 2,254 applications of this type. This one was decided in 63 days, 7 days longer than Torfaen's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 22 applications across Abersychan. We hold 2,850 applications in total for the NP4 postcode area.

89% of full applications at Torfaen County Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
NP4 8PW
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Pontypool Community Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 February 2020
Consultation expiry
4 March 2020
Consultation start
11 February 2020
Consultation end
3 March 2020
Neighbour consultation start
11 February 2020
Neighbour consultation end
3 March 2020
Last date for comments
4 March 2020
Target decision date
24 March 2020
Permission expires
8 April 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Torfaen County Borough Council
Agent address
Torfaen County Borough Council Property Services Ty Blaen Offices New Inn Pontypool NP4 0LS

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Publicity

Site notice start
12 February 2020
Site notice end
4 March 2020

Additional information

Documents
12
Constraints
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Source: Torfaen

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