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Firth Park Community Arts College Fircroft Avenue Sheffield S5 0SD

09/02326/FULFull Planning ApplicationApproved
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Approved on 22 September 2009

Council decision: Grant ConditionallyPlanning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Demolition of existing sports hall and erection of a new sports hall (including dance studio, sports hall and changing facilities), upgrading of existing tennis courts to form multi-use play area (including 3 metre high fence), extension to hard play area, and associated landscape works (including amended plan received 18th September 2009)

Received
17 July 2009
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Shiregreen & Brightside
  1. Received17 Jul
  2. Validated17 Jul
  3. Consult.18 Aug
  4. Target16 Oct
  5. Decided22 Sep

Decided in 67 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at Firth Park Community Arts College Fircroft Avenue Sheffield S5 0SD. Sheffield has handled 2,418 applications of this type. This one was decided in 67 days, 11 days longer than Sheffield's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 5 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 23 applications across Shiregreen & Brightside. We hold 506 applications in total for the S5 postcode area.

89% of full applications at Sheffield City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
S5 0SD
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 July 2009
Consultation expiry
14 April 2010
Consultation start
3 August 2009
Consultation end
18 August 2009
Neighbour consultation start
28 July 2009
Neighbour consultation end
18 August 2009
Last date for comments
18 August 2009
Target decision date
16 October 2009
Committee meeting
21 September 2009
Permission expires
22 September 2012

Applicant and agent

Agent address
2nd Floor The Ruskin Building Tudor Square Sheffield S1 2LA Fao Mr A J Taylor

Planning decision

Statutory period
91 days

Publicity

Last advertised
6 August 2009
Site notice end
14 April 2010

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
46

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)

Possibly incomplete for this council: conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers.

Also checked, none recorded (20)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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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