Highfield House Headless Cross Drive Redditch Worcestershire B97 5EQ
Approved on 19 December 2023
Council decision: Prior Approval Required and GrantedDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Prior approval application (Class MA) for Conversion of part of an office block into 21 residential flats comprising 9 x 1 bed and 12 x 2 bed (previous app 21/00521/CUPRIO)
- Received
- 10 November 2023
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 4
- Council
- Bromsgrove District Council
- Ward
- Headless Cross And Oakenshaw Ward
- Agent
- Hayward Architects
- ReceivedReceived10 Nov
- ValidatedValidated10 Nov
- Consult.Consultation6 Dec
- TargetTarget Date5 Jan
- DecidedDecided19 Dec
Decided in 39 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an outline application at Highfield House Headless Cross Drive Redditch Worcestershire B97 5EQ. Bromsgrove Redditch has handled 1,003 applications of this type. This one was decided in 39 days, 2 weeks quicker than Bromsgrove Redditch's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 8 applications across Headless Cross And Oakenshaw Ward. We hold 283 applications in total for the B97 postcode area.
86% of outline applications at Bromsgrove District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- B97 5EQ
- Application type
- COU Prior Approval
- Scale / size
- Medium
- Number of dwellings
- 21
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 10 November 2023
- Consultation expiry
- 7 December 2023
- Consultation start
- 12 November 2023
- Consultation end
- 6 December 2023
- Last date for comments
- 7 December 2023
- Target decision date
- 5 January 2024
- Permission expires
- 19 December 2026
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Hayward Architects
- Architect profile
- HAYWARD ARCHITECTS LIMITED
- Agent address
- 19 Station Road Hinckley LE10 1AW
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 13 November 2023
- Site notice end
- 7 December 2023
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-12589281
- Documents
- 7
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.
Also checked, none recorded (22)
flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.
A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.
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Source: Bromsgrove Redditch
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