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Land West Of Bridge Street North Smethwick B66 2BJ

DC/23/67863Change of Use (Major)Approved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 2 February 2024

Council decision: Grant Conditional Temporary PermissionPlanning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Proposed change of use from general industrial to treatment, remediation and recovery facility for contaminated soils, construction, demolition and excavation of waste with 1 No. soil treatment shed and 4 No. office/meeting rooms, 1 No. mess drying room, toilet block, store, weighbridge unit, picking station, decontamination unit, clean material area and 2 No. holding tanks and covered post treatment areas, oversized processing area, parking and the creation of a new vehicular access - Temporary planning permission for 3 years.

Received
10 January 2023
Decision level
Planning committee
Public comments
11
Ward
Soho & Victoria
Agent
Cerda Planning
  1. Received10 Jan
  2. Validated2 Feb
  3. Consult.23 Feb
  4. Target9 Feb
  5. Decided2 Feb

Decided in 365 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Land West Of Bridge Street North Smethwick B66 2BJ. Sandwell has handled 457 applications of this type. This one was decided in 388 days, 47 weeks longer than Sandwell's typical decision time. The site is in the Smethwick Summit Galton Valley conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There have been 2 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.

88% of amendment 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 2BJ
Application type
Change of Use (Major)
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
2 February 2023
Consultation expiry
7 July 2023
Consultation end
23 February 2023
Neighbour consultation start
16 June 2023
Neighbour consultation end
7 July 2023
Last date for comments
7 July 2023
Target decision date
9 February 2024
Committee meeting
29 November 2023
Permission expires
2 February 2027

Applicant and agent

Agent
Cerda Planning
Agent address
The Old Vicarage Market Street Castle Donington DE74 2JB

Planning decision

Statutory period
372 days

Publicity

Last advertised
7 February 2023
Advertisement expiry
9 March 2023
Site notice start
16 June 2023
Site notice end
7 July 2023

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-11732812
Documents
48
Constraints
22

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Smethwick Summit Galton Valley
  • Brownfield land register: North Smethwick Canalside, SmethwickRegister site at or near this address
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)

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 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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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© 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.

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    10 Jan

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