West Midlands Fire Service West Midlands Fire Training Centre Potterton Way Smethwick B66 1AL
Approved on 13 December 2016
Council decision: Grant PermissionDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Proposed back-up generator.
- Received
- 11 October 2016
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- St Pauls
- Agent
- Rob Duncan Planning Consultancy Ltd
- ReceivedReceived11 Oct
- ValidatedValidated1 Nov
- Consult.Consultation23 Nov
- TargetTarget Date27 Dec
- DecidedDecided13 Dec
Decided in 42 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application at West Midlands Fire Service West Midlands Fire Training Centre Potterton Way Smethwick B66 1AL. Sandwell has handled 2,543 applications of this type. This one was decided in 63 days, 7 days 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. 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 1AL
- Application type
- Full Application
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 1 November 2016
- Consultation expiry
- 23 November 2016
- Consultation end
- 23 November 2016
- Neighbour consultation start
- 2 November 2016
- Neighbour consultation end
- 23 November 2016
- Last date for comments
- 23 November 2016
- Target decision date
- 27 December 2016
- Application expires
- 27 December 2016
- Permission expires
- 13 December 2019
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Rob Duncan Planning Consultancy Ltd
- Agent address
- 70 Ferndale Road Lichfield WS13 7DL
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Site constraints
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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