Land Surrounding Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings, Spring Gardens, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY1
- Land size
- 3.15 acres
Key Features
- Development opportunity extends to c.3.145 acres
- Outline Planning Consent ref 20/05065/OUT
- Potential for residential and commercial units
- Proposals considered for acquisition of both site areas
- Intention to select preferred purchaser by mid 2025
- Preferred disposal structure via development lease
Description
The Main Mill has been sympathetically restored and converted for commercial use on four floors creating over 2,600m of high-quality commercial space. On the ground floor there is a public exhibition telling the history of Flaxmill Maltings, a shop and a café run by an independent local operator.
The c.1.27-hectare site around the Main Mill has been cleared for residential development and key infrastructure installed. There is an existing outline consent granted in 2021 with a 10-year consent period (number of units not prescribed).
Map Location
Property details
- Tenure
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- Council Tax Band
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- Date Posted
- 2026-01-28
Utilities & Restrictions
Utilities
- Electricity
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- Water
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- Heating
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- Broadband
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- Sewerage
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Rights & Restrictions
- Public Rights of Way
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- Private Rights of Way
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- Listed Property
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- Restrictions
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Listed status, conservation areas and planning constraints for this location are in the full report.
Property Features
- Accessibility
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- Parking
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- Garden
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Beyond the particulars: planning activity, flood history, heritage and ground risks, checked for this exact spot.
Connectivity
Broadband
No premises records for this postcode, which is common for bare land and rural plots. A new connection would be quoted by the provider.
Mobile signal
No address-level signal records for this postcode, which is common for bare land.
Ofcom Connected Nations postcode-level predictions. Speeds and signal are modelled, not measured, and vary between addresses and providers.
Signal is the easy part. Planning activity, flood history and protected designations here are in the full report.
Nearest Schools
Primary
- Shrewsbury Cathedral Catholic Primary School and Nursery311 metresNo Ofsted rating
- Ages
- 3 to 11
- Pupils
- 194
- Type
- Academy converter
- Faith
- Roman Catholic
- The Martin Wilson School357 metresOfsted: Requires improvement
- Ages
- 2 to 11
- Pupils
- 164
- Type
- Academy converter
- Greenfields Primary School509 metresOfsted: Good *
- Ages
- 2 to 11
- Pupils
- 342
- Type
- Academy converter
- Mount Pleasant Primary756 metresOfsted report card · Jan 2026
- Ages
- 2 to 11
- Pupils
- 346
- Type
- Academy converter
- Wilfred Owen Primary School0.7 milesOfsted: Good *
- Ages
- 2 to 11
- Pupils
- 216
- Type
- Academy converter
Secondary
- Shrewsbury Academy1.2 milesOfsted: Requires improvement
- Ages
- 11 to 16
- Pupils
- 817
- Type
- Academy converter
- Belvidere School1.2 milesOfsted: Requires improvement *
- Ages
- 11 to 16
- Pupils
- 830
- Type
- Academy converter
- The Priory School1.9 milesOfsted: Good
- Ages
- 11 to 16
- Pupils
- 852
- Type
- Academy converter
- Meole Brace School2.2 milesOfsted: Good
- Ages
- 11 to 16
- Pupils
- 1,316
- Type
- Academy converter
- The Corbet School6.8 milesNo Ofsted rating
- Ages
- 11 to 16
- Pupils
- 691
- Type
- Academy converter
* Latest graded judgement covers quality of education only; no overall grade was issued under the 2024-25 inspection framework.
Distances are straight-line from the advertised location. Source: the national school registers (DfE, Welsh Government, Scottish Government) and Ofsted.
Schools are just the start: sold prices nearby, planning activity and any flood history are in the full report.
Amenities
Supermarket
GP surgery
Pharmacy
Hospital
Green space
Straight-line distances from the advertised location. Sources: NHS records, Geolytix supermarket locations, OS Open Greenspace and the national trails registers.
The area stacks up? Now check the location itself: planning nearby, protected designations and past flooding.
Getting Around
Nearest station
Nearest bus stop
Typical drive times
Straight-line distances from the advertised location; drive times are typical free-flow times over OpenStreetMap road data, so allow more at peak. Public transport locations from DfT NaPTAN.
Easy to reach matters. So do planning activity, flood history and ground risks: all in the full report.
Flood Risk
From Environment Agency flood map open data, checked around the advertised map pin and allowing for the listed acreage where known. This summary comes from LandSale, the advertising platform, not from the listing agent, and is not part of the agent's particulars. Risk can vary across a single holding, so verify anything critical through your own searches before committing.
Rivers and the sea
Surface water
The detail behind these bandings
The full report pinpoints where this location sits on the flood maps, and runs the deeper checks that usually only surface after an offer.
- Exact flood zones & annual chances (included in the full report)
- Any recorded past flooding (included in the full report)
- Planning activity nearby (included in the full report)
- Heritage & conservation (included in the full report)
- Protected nature designations (included in the full report)
- Ground risks (included in the full report)
- Sold prices nearby (included in the full report)
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Lambert Smith Hampton, Manchester
6th Floor, 3 Hardman Street, Manchester, M3 3HF
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