This week’s most notable planning applications to Bristol City Council
The wooden office shed built without planning permission in a back garden at Oakhill Drive, Bristol(Image: Nimble)
A back garden office built inadvertently without planning permission should be allowed to stay, under new plans recently submitted.
Each week Bristol City Council receives dozens of planning applications seeking permission for a whole range of developments.
Over the past seven days, those applications also included turning a former tanning salon into a greetings cards shop, a beer garden fire escape, and a five-metre cruciform on a Baptist church.
Here’s this week’s round-up of notable planning applications submitted to the council.
Every week dozens are validated by the local authority and we have selected some of the more interesting proposals.
All planning applications submitted to the council have to be validated and are available for inspection by the public.
Anyone is also allowed to submit comments about the applications — whether in support or objection.
The majority of applications are decided by planning officers at the council under delegated powers.
However, some will go before elected councillors who sit on planning committees.
No dates have been set for when the planning applications below will be determined.
They can be viewed by going to the planning portal on Bristol City Council’s website.
Wooden office in rear garden
A timber-clad shed used as an office in a back garden in Bedminster, but built without planning consent, would be retained.
In planning documents, the applicants’ agents said the retrospective bid should be approved.
They said: “The building sits adjacent to tall boundary walls and fences, is not visible from the public realm and has no material effect on the amenity of neighbouring occupiers.
“The structure was erected in the belief that it fell within householder permitted development tolerances.
“Subsequent checks revealed that permitted development rights had been removed from the property, such that planning permission is required.
“The outbuilding is a modest, well-sited and well-designed garden structure that preserves local character and causes no harm to the living conditions of neighbouring occupiers.”
Tanning salon change of use
A South Bristol branch of a tanning salon that went into administration would become a greetings card shop.
Gloden, in Imperial Park, shut in the summer.
The retail complex’s owners are now asking the council for permission to change the unit’s use back to retail.
It would be taken over by Card Factory.
Beer garden fire escape
A pub in Easton needs consent to improve its fire exit.
The Sugar Loaf in St Marks Road has applied for permission to have a new external fire escape staircase, along with tactile paving and balustrading to the existing exit route for staff.
The application follows a new fire risk assessment by the owners, Stars Pubs and Bars.
Christian cross on listed church
A five-metre tall cruciform – a crucifix without the image of Jesus – would be added to the top of Broadmead Baptist Church.
Permission is needed for the externally illuminated structure because it is a listed building, in Union Street.
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