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Former Elmore Plant Services Yard Droicon Industrial Estate Portway Road Rowley Regis B65 9BY

DC/10/52898Change of UseApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 1 February 2011

Council decision: Grant Permission Subject to ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of existing contractor's yard to commercial vehicle depot.

Received
13 December 2010
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
2
Ward
Rowley
Agent
The Planning Law Practice
  1. Received13 Dec
  2. Validated17 Dec
  3. Consult.7 Jan
  4. Target11 Feb
  5. Decided1 Feb

Decided in 46 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Former Elmore Plant Services Yard Droicon Industrial Estate Portway Road Rowley Regis B65 9BY. 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 Rowley. We hold 538 applications in total for the B65 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
B65 9BY
Application type
Change of Use
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 December 2010
Consultation expiry
7 January 2011
Consultation start
17 December 2010
Consultation end
7 January 2011
Neighbour consultation start
17 December 2010
Neighbour consultation end
7 January 2011
Last date for comments
7 January 2011
Target decision date
11 February 2011
Application expires
11 February 2011
Permission expires
1 February 2016

Applicant and agent

Agent
The Planning Law Practice
Agent address
Wood End 20 Oaklands Park Bishops Stortford Hertfordshire, CM23 2BY

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-01312896
Documents
5
Constraints
9

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Brownfield land register: Land adj to Droicon Estate, Portway Road, Rowley RegisRegister site at or near this address
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)

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 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

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.

Source: Sandwell

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