The Tower 2 Furnival Square Sheffield S1 4QL
Approved on 18 August 2017
Council decision: Grant ConditionallyDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
External alterations to building
- Received
- 24 May 2017
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 3
- Council
- Sheffield City Council
- Ward
- City
- ReceivedReceived24 May
- ValidatedValidated30 May
- Consult.Consultation26 Jul
- TargetTarget Date25 Jul
- DecidedDecided18 Aug
Decided in 80 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application at The Tower 2 Furnival Square Sheffield S1 4QL. Sheffield has handled 2,418 applications of this type. This one was decided in 86 days, 4 weeks longer than Sheffield's typical decision time. There have been 3 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.
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
- S1 4QL
- Application type
- Full Planning Application
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 30 May 2017
- Consultation expiry
- 26 July 2017
- Consultation start
- 5 July 2017
- Consultation end
- 26 July 2017
- Last date for comments
- 26 July 2017
- Target decision date
- 25 July 2017
- Permission expires
- 18 August 2020
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- 5 Bolton Street London W1J 8BA
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-06089691
- Documents
- 27
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Brownfield land register: The Tower, 2 Furnival Square, S1 2QLRegister site at or near this address
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Possibly incomplete for this council: conservation areas, Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders.
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.
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Planning history at this site
3 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 201715 Dec
Use of office building (Use Class B1a) as 57 residential units (Use Class C3) over floors 1 - 9
ApprovedBuilding/Office to Residential PN17/05101/ORPN - 201227 Apr
Use of first floor of building as a karaoke bar (Class D2) in association with the existing ground floor…
ApprovedPlanning Application for Change of Use12/01330/CHU - 201128 Oct
Application to approve details in relation to condition numbers 7. sound attenuation; 8. validation test; 9…
Condition Application DecidedDischarge of conditions11/03478/COND
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