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Highfields Boating Lake And Grounds University Of Nottingham University Boulevard Nottingham

15/02122/PFUL3Full planning applicationApproved
Full

Approved on 7 January 2016

Council decision: Grant conditional permissionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Formation of landscaped bunding and augmented lake shoreline following lake de-silting works

Received
10 August 2015
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Wollaton East And Lenton Abbey
  1. Received10 Aug
  2. Validated21 Dec
  3. Consult.18 Jan
  4. Target21 Mar
  5. Decided7 Jan

Decided in 17 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Highfields Boating Lake And Grounds University Of Nottingham University Boulevard Nottingham. Nottingham has handled 1,388 applications of this type. This one was decided in 150 days, 13 weeks longer than Nottingham's typical decision time. The site is in 3 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address.

91% of full applications at Nottingham City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Application type
Full planning application
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 December 2015
Consultation expiry
18 January 2016
Consultation start
21 December 2015
Consultation end
18 January 2016
Neighbour consultation start
21 December 2015
Neighbour consultation end
4 January 2016
Last date for comments
18 January 2016
Target decision date
21 March 2016
Decision issued
11 January 2016
Permission expires
11 January 2019

Applicant and agent

Agent address
FAO: Mr Ben Dudley The Old Pumphouse 5 The Ropewalk Nottingham NG1 5DU

Planning decision

Statutory period
91 days

Publicity

Last advertised
14 October 2015
Advertisement expiry
4 November 2015
Site notice start
7 October 2015
Site notice end
28 October 2015

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-04410490
Documents
18
Constraints
23

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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 (19)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, 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, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

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Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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

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