Edwin Richards Quarry Portway Road Rowley Regis B65 9DN
Proposal
Request for a scoping opinion under Regulation 10 of the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (England) Regulations 2011 for proposed quarry restoration project to include inflling and housing.
- Received
- 19 June 2013
- Decided
- 6 August 2013 · Scoping Opinion
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 1
- Ward
- Rowley
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- ReceivedSubmitted19 Jun
- ValidatedValidated19 Jun
- Consult.Consultation12 Jul
- TargetTarget Date24 Jul
- DecidedDecided6 Aug
Decided in 48 days (council typically 56)
This is an outline application at Edwin Richards Quarry Portway Road Rowley Regis B65 9DN. Sandwell has handled 675 applications of this type and approves 92% of them, typically deciding them in 40 days. This one was decided in 48 days, 8 days longer than Sandwell's median. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 28 applications across Rowley. We hold 532 applications in total for the B65 postcode area.
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Planning history at this site
1 other application at this property, newest first.
Planning constraints
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- Tree Preservation Order: 80/00061/TPOPart of the site
- Brownfield land register: Edwin Richards Quarry, Portway Road, Rowley RegisRegister site at or near this address
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)
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