Planning application
36 St Albans Road Brynmill Swansea SA2 0BP
Works: New dwelling
Refused. Only the applicant can appeal, within the statutory time limit, and a revised scheme can be submitted instead.
Proposal
Use of property as three separate flats (application for a Certificate of Lawfulness)
As published by the council, reference 2025/1845/ELD
Application record
- Reference
- 2025/1845/ELD
- Type
- Lawful Dev. Cert. - Existing
- Status
- Decided
- Decision
- Refused As published: Was Not Lawful (existing)
- Received
- 27 Aug 2025
- Validated
- 27 Aug 2025
- Decided
- 15 Oct 2025
- Ward
- Uplands - Bay Area
- Decision by
- Delegated Decision
- Postcode
- SA2 0BP
Site history
Applications at this address on the Swansea register
This site has had 5 applications since 2019: 2 approved, 2 refused.
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2026/0854/ELD Granted
36 St Albans Road Brynmill Swansea SA2 0BP
4 self-contained Class C3 flats (application for a Certificate of Existing Lawful Development
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2019/2157/FUL Granted
36 St Albans Road Brynmill Swansea SA2 0BP
Conversion of property into 2 no. 2 bedroom self-contained flats
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2019/0707/FUL Refused
36 St Albans Road Brynmill Swansea SA2 0BP
Conversion of property into 3 self-contained flats
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2019/0109/FUL Withdrawn
36 St Albans Road Brynmill Swansea SA2 0BP
Change of use from residential to an 8 bed HMO
Timeline
Dates from the published record
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27 Aug 2025
Received by Swansea
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15 Oct 2025
Decision issued: Was Not Lawful (existing)
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7 Aug 2026
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Who's behind it
Company information only, from the register and Companies House
Llew Thomas Design Agent, a design practice
5 applications on PlanIndex
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Plans, drawings, consultee responses and the officer's report
10 documents on file for this application
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Swansea refused this application for the reasons on the decision notice; only the applicant can appeal, and refused schemes often return in revised form. More in our guide to what happens after a planning decision.
About lawful development applications
A lawful development certificate is a legal determination that existing or proposed works do not need planning permission; the merits of the scheme are not considered. More in our guide to planning application types.
Nearby applications
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36 St Albans Road Brynmill Swansea SA2 0BP
Conversion of property into 2 no. 2 bedroom self-contained flats
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Conversion of property into 3 self-contained flats
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36 St Albans Road Brynmill Swansea SA2 0BP
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Change of use from residential to an 8 bed HMO
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