Planning application
43 COMMERCIAL ROAD, TOTTON SO40 3TU
Works: Extension Windows or glazing
Still open. Anyone can comment while the consultation period runs, and comments go to the council rather than to us.
Proposal
Change of use of upper floors to form a 10-bed HMO, including an upward extension to facilitate the creation of a new second floor; external alterations, including fenestration, material and fascia alterations and the creation of a first floor roof terrace; partial retention of ground floor commercial use
As published by the council, reference 26/10037
Application record
- Reference
- 26/10037
- Type
- Full Planning Permission
- Status
- Awaiting decision
- Received
- 13 Jan 2026
- Validated
- 3 Feb 2026
- Ward
- Totton Central
- Parish
- Totton and Eling
- Postcode
- SO40 3TU
Timeline
Dates from the published record
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13 Jan 2026
Received by New Forest
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3 Feb 2026
Validated
Checked as complete and ready for consideration.
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26 Jul 2026
Added to PlanIndex
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3 Oct 2026
Status changed to Awaiting decision
Previously Registered.
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Decision
Awaiting decision
Decision expected by 31 March 2026, 8 weeks from validation under the statutory target for most applications. Extensions of time are common and are agreed case by case.
New Forest took a median of 56 days over the applications it decided in the last year.
Who's behind it
Company information only, from the register and Companies House
JB Architectural Design Studio Agent, an architecture practice registered in Southampton
Active · incorporated 2022 · Southampton
7 applications on PlanIndex · across 4 councils
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Plans, drawings, consultee responses and the officer's report
47 documents on file for this application
- CONSULTEE - ECOLOGIST
- NUTRIENT ASSESSMENT AND BUDGET
- REPRESENTEE - MRS CAROLE GIBBS
- CONSULTEE - HAMPSHIRE COUNTY EDUCATION
- AMENDED PROPOSED FIRST AND SECOND FLOOR PLANS
- AMENDED PROPOSED ELEVATIONS
- AGENT EMAIL RE AMENDED PLANS
- CONSULTEE - ECOLOGIST
- BAT EMERGENCE SURVEY
- CONSULTEE - ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH (POLLUTION)
- AMENDED DESIGN AND ACCESS STATEMENT
- CONSULTEE - ECOLOGIST
- CONSULTEE ECOLOGY
- NOISE IMPACT ASSESSMENT
- PRA
- CONSULTEE - ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH (POLLUTION)
- CONSULTEE - HAMPSHIRE HIGHWAYS COMMENT
- REPRESENTEE - MR PAUL STORER, 64 WATER LANE
- REPRESENTEE - MRS VICTORIA UKAHI, SALISBURY ROAD
- REPRESENTEE - MRS MARGUERITE WILD, 4 OAKLANDS AVENUE
- REPRESENTEE - MR JAMES CAINE, 18 HAYDOCK CLOSE
- CONSULTEE - TOTTON AND ELING TOWN COUNCIL, CIVIC CENTRE
- REPRESENTEE - MR FRANK BRIGHT, 15
- REPRESENTEE - MR NATHIAN TIDY, 67 THE MALLARDS
- ECOLOGIST
- REPRESENTEE - MRS LOUISE CERASOLI, 39 HAMMONDS LANE
- REPRESENTEE - MR MATT SIMPSON, 224 RINGWOOD ROAD
- REPRESENTEE - MS JAYNE NIGHTINGALE, FLAT 3 HANOVER HOUSE
- REPRESENTEE - MISS ANDREA COLE, 18 DICKENS DELL
- MITIGATION CHECK LIST
- BB LETTER
- EXISTING & PROPOSED WESTERN ELEVATION
- EXISTING & PROPOSED ROOF PLAN
- EXISTING ELEVATIONS
- PROPOSED GROUND FLOOR PLAN
- LOCATION PLAN
- EXISTING FLOOR PLANS
- EXISTING & PROPOSED STREET SCENE
- EXISTING & PROPOSED SECTION
- BIODIVERSITY - ECO STATEMENT
- FLOOD RISK ASSESSMENT
- CIL FORM
- APPLICATION FORM REDACTED
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