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South West planning lists show a busy week for barn conversions and depot changes

Weekly planning lists across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire reveal parallel applications to convert rural buildings and adjust approved development sites.

Weekly planning lists published by councils in the Bristol area show overlapping categories of development applications, including new uses for existing buildings and post-approval changes to previously permitted schemes.

North Somerset Council is considering a prior approval application under the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017 for the conversion of an agricultural barn at Weston-in-Gordano into one dwelling [4]. The same council also received a non-material amendment to an approved scheme for 39 dwellings at the former police maintenance depot on Stuart Road, Weston-super-Mare, to alter the approved boundary treatment along the western edge of the site [2].

In Bristol, the council’s weekly list includes an application to discharge a sustainability condition attached to planning permission for a new secondary school off Daventry Road, BS4 [1]. Separately, a company has applied for a goods vehicle operator’s licence to use a site on Wickwar Road in Chipping Sodbury, South Gloucestershire, according to the Gazette Series [3].

The applications are at different stages — one seeks to approve details reserved by a condition, another asks for a minor change to an already-approved layout, and one is a habitat-regulations check before a barn conversion can proceed [1][2][4]. Together, they show councils in the region processing a range of smaller-scale changes to development permissions alongside new licence requests [3].

Sources

  1. Bristol City Council planning applications weekly list: Application for approval of details reserved by condition 4 (Sustainability Compliance) of permission 26/11663/X - Application for Variation of Condition No. 3 (List of Approved plans) following a Grant of Planning Permission 21/05629/M (Approval of Reserved Matters relating to appearance, landscaping, layout and scale for a new secondary school in accordance with outline planning permission 19/04881/P).
  2. North Somerset Council planning weekly list: Non-Material Amendment to application 25/P/1746/FUL (Erection of 39no. dwellings with associated roads and parking following demolition of existing buildings.) to allow for alterations to approved boundary treatment along the western boundary of the site.
  3. Gazette Series: Plans to use Chipping Sodbury site as base for goods vehicles
  4. North Somerset Council planning weekly list: Application under Regulation 77 of the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017 to determine whether the Prior approval for the conversion of an agricultural barn to 1no. dwelling with operational development including replacement roof covering, replacement and new windows and doors subject of application 25/P/1863/CQA is likely to have a significant effect on a European site (either alone or in combination with other plans or projects)

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