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5 Wattville Road Smethwick West Midlands B66 2NU

DC/06/46417Change of UseApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 9 August 2006

Council decision: Grant PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Proposed change of use from engineering to laundry.

Received
20 June 2006
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Soho & Victoria
  1. Received20 Jun
  2. Validated28 Jun
  3. Consult.21 Jul
  4. Target23 Aug
  5. Decided9 Aug

Decided in 42 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 5 Wattville Road Smethwick West Midlands B66 2NU. Sandwell has handled 457 applications of this type. This one was decided in 50 days, 6 days quicker than Sandwell's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 24 applications across Soho & Victoria. We hold 775 applications in total for the B66 postcode area.

88% of amendment applications at Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
B66 2NU
Application type
Change of Use
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 June 2006
Consultation expiry
21 July 2006
Consultation start
30 June 2006
Consultation end
21 July 2006
Last date for comments
21 July 2006
Target decision date
23 August 2006

Applicant and agent

Agent address
5 Old Ascott Hill Great Barr Birmingham B44 9SR

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
30 June 2006
Site notice end
21 July 2006

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
9
Constraints
5

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (24)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, 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.

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.

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

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