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26/12236/SCR - Screening Opinion Decided

Proposal

Request for a Screening Opinion as to whether an Environmental Impact Assessment is required for erection of a new building to provide extra-care accommodation and associated ancillary communal facilities (Use Class C2), together with landscaping, car parking, refuse and other associated infrastructure (Please note that this is not a planning application and therefore we are not carrying out public consultation on the proposal at this stage). Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
26 May 2026
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EIA Not required
26 Jun 2026

EIA Not required on 26 Jun 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 5 Jul 2026

Site constraints 6

Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 2
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Registered park or garden about 86 m away: Royal Victoria Park (Formerly Brentry House)
Its setting is a consideration for work nearby.
Registered parks and gardens, battlefields, world heritage sites and protected wrecks are designated heritage assets: harm needs clear and convincing justification.
Historic England ↗
Also on the record
Radon affected area, class 4; Conservation area about 72 m away: Brentry; Coalfield, development low risk area; Inside the Bristol built-up area.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the Mining Remediation Authority, the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency (radon, contains BGS materials © UKRI) and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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Important details

Council
Bristol
Application type
Screening Opinion
Postcode
BS10 6NQ
Received
26 May 2026
Validated
26 May 2026
Ward
Southmead
Parish
Henbury, Brentry And Southmead
Target decision
16 Jun 2026
Decision
EIA Not required
Decision date
26 Jun 2026
Decision level
Delegated Decision
Applicant
Show
Agent
Avison Young

Consultation & key dates

Comments by
24 Jun 2026
Statutory expiry
16 Jun 2026
Bristol
Planning Authority Score
5.8/10
Average
#109 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

Bristol ranks #112 out of 296 councils for householder decision speed. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (92%) than the national average (90%).

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
Bristol decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
86%
Overall approval rate
Below avg (87%) #190 of 296
92%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #149 of 296
71%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #112 of 296
37%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #118 of 296
74%
Minor dwellings approved
374 decided (1-9 homes)
93%
Major dwellings approved
30 decided (10+ homes)
82%
Change of use approved
150 decided
2,098
Total decisions
293 refused in the year to March 2026