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Unit 4 Empire Trading Estate New Street Smethwick B66 2AJ

DC/09/51679Variations of permissionsApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 17 February 2010

Council decision: Grant Permission Subject to ConditionsPlanning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Variation of condition 5 of DC/05/44451 to allow trade and limited retail sales of fruit and vegetables (80% wholesale & 20% retail), resubmission of DC/09/50805.

Received
11 December 2009
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Soho & Victoria
  1. Received11 Dec
  2. Validated12 Dec
  3. Consult.28 Jan
  4. Target6 Feb
  5. Decided17 Feb

Decided in 67 days

About this application

This is a planning application at Unit 4 Empire Trading Estate New Street Smethwick B66 2AJ. Sandwell has handled 5,264 applications of this type. This one was decided in 68 days, 12 days longer than Sandwell's typical decision time. The site is in the Smethwick Summit Galton Valley conservation area. There has been 1 other application 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.

Application details

Postcode
B66 2AJ
Application type
Variations of permissions
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 December 2009
Consultation expiry
28 January 2010
Consultation start
7 January 2010
Consultation end
28 January 2010
Neighbour consultation start
7 January 2010
Neighbour consultation end
19 January 2010
Last date for comments
28 January 2010
Target decision date
6 February 2010
Committee meeting
17 February 2010
Decision issued
3 March 2010
Application expires
6 February 2010
Permission expires
3 March 2015

Applicant and agent

Agent address
23 St James Road Oldbury B69 2EA

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
16 December 2009
Site notice end
6 January 2010

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
7
Constraints
11

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Smethwick Summit Galton Valley
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage 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

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© 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.

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