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FCC Environment Edwin Richards Quarry Portway Road Rowley Regis B65 9DN

DC/14/57743Major - Variations of permissions EIAPending Decision
Discharge / amendments

Proposal

Variation of condition 20 of planning permission DA/10465 - proposed replacement infilling and progressive restoration scheme for infilling of the quarry void with non-hazardous soils, clays and excavation materials.

Received
11 December 2014
Decided
3 August 2016 · Grant Permission Subject to Conditions
Decision level
Planning committee
Public comments
8
Ward
Rowley
Approximate site (title boundary)
Boundary © HM Land Registry, © Ordnance Survey · details

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  1. Received11 Dec
  2. Validated30 Dec
  3. Consult.29 Jan
  4. Target21 Apr
  5. Decided3 Aug

Decided in 582 days (council typically 56)

8 weeks typical decision time in Sandwell90% of outline applications approved

This is an outline application at FCC Environment 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 601 days, 80 weeks 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.

Application Details

Reference
DC/14/57743
Address
FCC Environment Edwin Richards Quarry Portway Road Rowley Regis B65 9DN
Postcode
B65 9DN
Local Authority
Sandwell
Application Type
Major - Variations of permissions EIA
Scale / Size
Large
Decision Status
Conditions
Ward
Rowley

Applicant & Agent

Agent
AMEC E&I UK Ltd
Agent Address
Canon Court Abbey Lawn Abbey Foregate Shrewsbury SY2 5DE

Planning Application Dates

Date Received
11 December 2014
Consultation Expiry
29 January 2015
Target Decision Date
21 April 2015
Date Decided
3 August 2016
Date Validated
30 December 2014
Date Submitted
11 December 2014
Consultation Start
6 January 2015
Consultation End
29 January 2015
Neighbour Consultation Start
9 June 2015
Neighbour Consultation End
27 January 2015
Last Date for Comments
29 January 2015
Application Expires
21 April 2015
Committee Meeting
1 July 2015
Permission Expires
3 August 2021

Planning Decision

Decision
Grant Permission Subject to Conditions
Decided By
Committee Decision
Statutory Period
112 days

Publicity

Last Advertised
7 January 2015
Advertisement Expiry
29 January 2015
Site Notice Start
7 January 2015
Site Notice End
28 January 2015

Appeal

Additional Information

Comments
8
Documents
80
Constraints
31
Coordinates
52.492160, -2.049885
Enriching application data
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Source: Sandwell

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Associated applications

  1. 2014
    11 Dec

    Variation of condition 20 of planning permission DA/10465

    This applicationApprovedVariation of conditions (s73)DC/14/57743
  2. 2014
    11 Dec

    Outline planning application (for access) for up to 281 residential dwellings (Use Class C3), amended access…

    ApprovedOutline Application with EIAFiled alongsideDC/14/57745

Planning constraints

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, 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.

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