40-50 Castle Square Sheffield S1 2GF
Approved on 26 January 2017
Council decision: Grant Conditionally Prior NotificationDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Use of offices (Class B1a) on second, third and fourth floors as 21 studio flats (Class C3) (Amended as per plans received on 26/1/17)
- Received
- 2 December 2016
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Sheffield City Council
- Ward
- City
- ReceivedReceived2 Dec
- ValidatedValidated7 Dec
- Consult.Consultation29 Dec
- TargetTarget Date1 Feb
- DecidedDecided26 Jan
Decided in 50 days
About this application
This is a planning application at 40-50 Castle Square Sheffield S1 2GF. Sheffield has handled 9,053 applications of this type. This one was decided in 55 days. The site is in the City Centre conservation area, with 4 listed buildings nearby. There have been 5 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 152 applications across City. We hold 1,360 applications in total for the S1 postcode area.
Application details
- Postcode
- S1 2GF
- Application type
- Building/Office to Residential PN
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 7 December 2016
- Consultation expiry
- 29 December 2016
- Last date for comments
- 29 December 2016
- Target decision date
- 1 February 2017
- Permission expires
- 26 January 2022
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- TSA Unit 8 44 Steade Road Sheffield S7 1DU
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 8 December 2016
- Site notice end
- 29 December 2016
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: City Centre
- Brownfield land register: 40-50 Castle Square Sheffield S1 2GFRegister site at or near this address · +1 more
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Possibly incomplete for this council: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders.
Also checked, none recorded (19)
flood storage areas, 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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Planning history at this site
4 other applications at this property, newest first.
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