Marine Employment Quarter Keel Road Southampton SO19 9UY Data via plota.co.uk

Approved 25/00609/FUL
Council
Southampton 5/10
Date received
around 15 May 2025
Date validated
15 May 2025
Postcode
SO19 9UY

Description

Erection of a 2-storey building to provide flexible employment floorspace (Use Classes E(g)ii, E(g)(iii) / B2) with ancillary office and storage along with associated access, service roads and paths, service yards, car and cycle parking, landscaping, boundary treatment and other related works. Data via plota.co.uk

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Planning committee

Decided by Southampton Planning and Rights of Way Panel on 14 Oct 2025.

Approved unanimously

As officers recommended.

  • Officers advised approval because the employment building supports jobs on allocated land and would not cause unacceptable residential, highway or environmental harm.
  • Residents objected over daylight, noise, drainage, privacy, wildlife, traffic and technical noise concerns; consultees largely raised no objection subject to conditions.
  • The Panel unanimously confirmed the habitats assessment and carried the amended recommendation to delegate conditional permission.
Read how the committee decided The proposal, site context, officers’ assessment, public views, committee debate, vote and decision.

Source: Plota analysis of Southampton's committee minutes of 14 Oct 2025.

Site constraints 7

Nutrient neutrality catchment: Solent: Includes Chichester and Langstone Harbours SPA/Ramsar, Solent and Southampton Water SPA/Ramsar, Solent Maritime SAC, Portsmouth Harbour SPA/Ramsar
New homes and overnight accommodation must show nutrient neutrality before approval.
Natural England advice: extra wastewater in these catchments harms protected habitats, so schemes must offset their nutrient load, usually through credits.
Calshot to Gosport across the site
Matters where it crosses or adjoins the site; the route and its margin are protected.
Article 4 direction
HMO. Named permitted development rights are withdrawn here.
An Article 4 direction withdraws particular permitted development rights, so work that would normally need no application needs one here. Not every council has published its directions.
Special protection area about 122 m away: Solent and Dorset Coast
Work nearby can need a habitats assessment.
Harm to a protected site is only accepted where there is no alternative and an overriding public interest.
Also on the record
SSSI about 310 m away: Lee-on-The Solent to Itchen Estuary SSSI; 1 listed building within 150 m of the postcode pin; Inside the Southampton built-up area.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 18 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 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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Southampton
Planning Authority Score
5/10
Average
#150 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

Southampton ranks #158 out of 296 councils for householder decision speed. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (93%) than the national average (90%).

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Southampton decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
90%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #117 of 296
93%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #137 of 296
63%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #158 of 296
40%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #154 of 296
70%
Minor dwellings approved
50 decided (1-9 homes)
100%
Major dwellings approved
8 decided (10+ homes)
86%
Change of use approved
109 decided
742
Total decisions
72 refused in the year to March 2026
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings