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Former Lockup Garages Land Between Oxford Road & Sydenham Road Smethwick

DC/13/56600Outline ApplicationApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 24 April 2014

Council decision: Grant Outline Permission with ConditionsPlanning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Proposed residential development comprising of 6 No. terraced houses and 2 No. semi-detached houses (outline application for access, layout and scale).

Received
29 November 2013
Decision level
Planning committee
Public comments
4
Ward
St Pauls
  1. Received29 Nov
  2. Validated3 Feb
  3. Consult.27 Feb
  4. Target31 Mar
  5. Decided24 Apr

Decided in 80 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Former Lockup Garages Land Between Oxford Road & Sydenham Road Smethwick. Sandwell has handled 681 applications of this type. This one was decided in 146 days, 13 weeks longer than Sandwell's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 22 applications across St Pauls.

90% of outline 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

Application type
Outline Application
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 February 2014
Consultation expiry
27 February 2014
Consultation start
6 February 2014
Consultation end
27 February 2014
Neighbour consultation start
17 March 2014
Neighbour consultation end
27 February 2014
Last date for comments
27 February 2014
Target decision date
31 March 2014
Committee meeting
26 March 2014
Application expires
31 March 2014
Permission expires
24 April 2017

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-03033616
Documents
8
Constraints
12

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.

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