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1 Quarry Road, Somercotes, Alfreton, Derbyshire, DE55 4HY

CW6/0516/11Major (Waste)Approved
Full

Approved on 29 December 2016

Council decision: Approved subject to conditionsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Retrospective application (Section 73A) to change use from B2 to Sui Generis, for a metal reclamation, processing and grading business. Operating with all licenses including :Environmental Permit; Scrap Metal License; Exemptions S2, T2, T9 and T11 to dissassemble used good and reclaim the variuos non-ferrous metals. The resulting materials and waste arisings are then stored before dispatch. A shared front standing provides off road space for 3 vehicles for the works van and visiting vehicles.

Received
2 May 2016
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Alfreton and Somercotes
  1. Received2 May
  2. Validated17 May
  3. Consult.29 Dec
  4. Target
  5. Decided29 Dec

Decided in 226 days (council typically 28)

About this application

This is a full planning application at 1 Quarry Road, Somercotes, Alfreton, Derbyshire,DE55 4HY. Derbyshire has handled 82 applications of this type. This one was decided in 241 days, 30 weeks longer than Derbyshire's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 3 applications across Alfreton and Somercotes. We hold 1,632 applications in total for the DE55 postcode area.

95% of all applications at Derbyshire County Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 4 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
DE55 4HY
Application type
Major (Waste)
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 May 2016
Consultation expiry
29 December 2016
Consultation start
2 June 2016
Consultation end
29 December 2016
Committee meeting
29 December 2016

Publicity

Site notice end
29 December 2016

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers.

Also checked, none recorded (20)

flood storage 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 and heritage coasts.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Associated applications

  1. 2019
    7 Nov

    Planning application seeking to vary Condition 1 (temporary planning permission granted until 31 January…

    ApprovedVariation of conditions (s73)CW6/1119/56
  2. 2016
    2 May

    Retrospective application (Section 73A) to change use from B2 to Sui Generis, for a metal reclamation…

    This applicationApprovedFullCW6/0516/11

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