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Vacant Land Adjacent Cornwall Road Industrial Estate Cornwall Road Smethwick B66 2JR

DC/18/61643Full (Major)Approved
Full

Approved on 3 August 2018

Council decision: Grant Permission Subject to ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Proposed erection of commercial vehicle dealership and maintenance centre with associated car parking, fencing, hard and soft landscaping and new site access.

Received
16 March 2018
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Soho & Victoria
Agent
Whittaker & Watt Architects
  1. Received16 Mar
  2. Validated20 Mar
  3. Consult.16 Apr
  4. Target19 Jun
  5. Decided3 Aug

Decided in 136 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Vacant Land Adjacent Cornwall Road Industrial Estate Cornwall Road Smethwick B66 2JR. Sandwell has handled 2,543 applications of this type. This one was decided in 140 days, 12 weeks longer than Sandwell's typical decision time. The site is in 2 listed buildings nearby. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 24 applications across Soho & Victoria. 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 2JR
Application type
Full (Major)
Scale / size
Large

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 March 2018
Consultation expiry
24 April 2018
Consultation start
26 March 2018
Consultation end
16 April 2018
Last date for comments
24 April 2018
Target decision date
19 June 2018
Permission expires
3 August 2021

Applicant and agent

Agent
Whittaker & Watt Architects
Architect profile
WHITTAKER AND WATT ARCHITECTS LTD
Agent address
379 Antrim Road Newtownabbey Co. Antrim BT36 5EB

Planning decision

Statutory period
91 days

Publicity

Last advertised
3 April 2018
Advertisement expiry
24 April 2018
Site notice start
27 March 2018
Site notice end
17 April 2018

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-06812138
Comments
0
Documents
30
Constraints
25

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 2: Medium probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Conservation area: Smethwick Summit Galton ValleyNext to the site
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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Sandwell

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