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Melksham House, 27 Market Place, Melksham, SN12 6ES

PL/2026/04624Full planning permissionAwaiting decision
Full
Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Internal and external alterations to support the continued use of the building as a specialist school for children and young people. Internal works include the installation of reversible timber slatted screening and access-controlled gates to selected sta

Submitted
7 August 2026
Decision due
2 October 2026
Ward
Melksham South ED
  1. Received7 Aug
  2. Validated7 Aug
  3. Consult.4 Sep
  4. Target2 Oct
  5. Decided

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About this application

This is a full planning application at Melksham House, 27 Market Place, Melksham, SN12 6ES. Wiltshire has handled 9,967 applications of this type. It has been with the council since 7 August 2026 and is still awaiting a decision. The site is in the Melksham conservation area, with 10 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 24 applications across Melksham South ED. We hold 274 applications in total for the SN12 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
SN12 6ES
Application type
Full planning permission
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Melksham CP

Planning application dates

Date validated
7 August 2026
Consultation expiry
4 September 2026
Consultation end
4 September 2026

Planning decision

Case officer
Rose Fox
Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
20

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: Melksham
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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. 2026
    7 Aug

    Internal and external alterations to support the continued use of the building as a specialist school for…

    This applicationPendingFullPL/2026/04624
  2. 2026
    7 Aug

    Internal works include the installation of reversible timber slatted screening and access-controlled gates to…

    PendingListed building consentFiled alongsidePL/2026/04955

Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2026
    17 Jun

    Discharge of condition 3 of PL/2025/06042

    ApprovedDischarge of conditionsPL/2026/03789

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