Wessex Business Park Bath Road Halfway Newbury RG20 8NS
Refused on 6 March 2023
Council decision: RefusalDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Change of use of the land to open storage purposes (Use Class B8) to include minor engineering operations to alter the land levels.
- Received
- 6 December 2022
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- West Berkshire Council
- Ward
- Newbury Speen
- ReceivedReceived6 Dec
- ValidatedValidated8 Dec
- Consult.Consultation5 Jan
- TargetTarget Date2 Feb
- DecidedDecided6 Mar
Decided in 88 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a change of use at Wessex Business Park Bath Road Halfway Newbury RG20 8NS. West Berkshire has handled 1,524 applications of this type. This one was decided in 90 days, 5 weeks longer than West Berkshire's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 44 applications across Newbury Speen. We hold 1,024 applications in total for the RG20 postcode area.
94% of full applications at West Berkshire Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- RG20 8NS
- Application type
- Full Application (8 Weeks)
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Speen Parish Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 8 December 2022
- Consultation expiry
- 6 January 2023
- Consultation end
- 5 January 2023
- Last date for comments
- 6 January 2023
- Target decision date
- 2 February 2023
- Permission expires
- 6 March 2026
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Mr Mark Campbell Evans Jones Ltd Royal Mews St Georges Place Cheltenham GL50 3PQ
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 8 December 2022
- Site notice end
- 6 January 2023
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- National Landscape (AONB): North Wessex Downs
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)
flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, 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, 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.
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Source: West Berkshire
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