72 - 78 High Street Smethwick B66 1DS
Approved on 17 July 2012
Council decision: Grant Permission Subject to ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Conversion of first floor and erection of second floor to accommodate 10 No. apartments.
- Received
- 19 April 2012
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 2
- Ward
- Smethwick
- Agent
- Master Design Studio
- ReceivedReceived19 Apr
- ValidatedValidated25 Apr
- Consult.Consultation22 May
- TargetTarget Date25 Jul
- DecidedDecided17 Jul
Decided in 83 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application at 72 - 78 High Street Smethwick B66 1DS. Sandwell has handled 2,543 applications of this type. This one was decided in 89 days, 5 weeks longer than Sandwell's typical decision time. The site is in the Smethwick Town Centre conservation area. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 32 applications across Smethwick. We hold 775 applications in total for the B66 postcode area.
87% of full 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 1DS
- Application type
- Full (Major)
- Scale / size
- Large
- Number of dwellings
- 10
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 25 April 2012
- Consultation expiry
- 23 May 2012
- Consultation start
- 1 May 2012
- Consultation end
- 22 May 2012
- Neighbour consultation start
- 1 May 2012
- Neighbour consultation end
- 22 May 2012
- Last date for comments
- 23 May 2012
- Target decision date
- 25 July 2012
- Application expires
- 25 July 2012
- Permission expires
- 17 July 2015
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Master Design Studio
- Architect profile
- MASTER DESIGN STUDIO LIMITED
- Agent address
- Radway Centre Radway Road Solihull B90 4NR
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 91 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 2 May 2012
- Advertisement expiry
- 23 May 2012
- Site notice start
- 1 May 2012
- Site notice end
- 22 May 2012
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-01923388
- Documents
- 26
- Constraints
- 15
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Smethwick Town Centre High Street
- 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.
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Planning history at this site
2 other applications at this property, newest first.
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