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50 High Street, Sutton Benger, Chippenham, SN15 4RJ

PL/2025/04250Full planning permissionApproved
Full

Approved on 26 August 2025

Council decision: Approve with Conditions5 conditions

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Change of use of small lean-to office space into local cafe. Existing non-original lean to door to be replaced with new bespoke timber part glazed stable door.

Submitted
7 May 2025
Ward
Kington ED
  1. Received7 May
  2. Validated7 May
  3. Consult.21 Aug
  4. Target27 Aug
  5. Decided26 Aug

Decided in 111 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 50 High Street, Sutton Benger, Chippenham, SN15 4RJ. Wiltshire has handled 9,967 applications of this type. This one was decided in 111 days, 9 weeks longer than Wiltshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Sutton Benger conservation area, with 9 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 114 applications across Kington ED. We hold 909 applications in total for the SN15 postcode area.

93% of full applications at Wiltshire Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
SN15 4RJ
Application type
Full planning permission
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Sutton Benger CP

Planning application dates

Date validated
7 May 2025
Consultation expiry
21 August 2025
Consultation end
21 August 2025
Target decision date
27 August 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
112 days

Additional information

Documents
19

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: Sutton Benger
  • Listed building: Grade II: 50, High StreetOn or next to this site
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, Article 4 directions, 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.

Associated applications

  1. 2025
    7 May

    Change of use of small lean-to office space into local cafe. Existing non-original lean to door to be…

    This applicationApprovedFullPL/2025/04250
  2. 2025
    7 May

    Change of use of small lean-to office space into local cafe. Existing non-original lean to door to be…

    ApprovedListed building consentFiled alongsidePL/2025/04397

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