Land For Proposed Royce Discovery Centre Orange Street Sheffield S1 4DT
Approved on 20 April 2018
Council decision: Grant ConditionallyDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Erection of Engineering facility (use class D1) including demolition of Portobello wing building and works to retained rear elevation of Portobello Centre including provision of escape routes and associated landscaping/highways works
- Received
- 18 December 2017
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 9
- Council
- Sheffield City Council
- Ward
- City
- ReceivedReceived18 Dec
- ValidatedValidated10 Jan
- Consult.Consultation8 Feb
- TargetTarget Date11 Apr
- DecidedDecided20 Apr
Decided in 100 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application for demolition at Land For Proposed Royce Discovery Centre Orange Street Sheffield S1 4DT. Sheffield has handled 2,418 applications of this type. This one was decided in 123 days, 10 weeks longer than Sheffield's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded 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 4DT
- Application type
- Full Planning Application
- Scale / size
- Medium
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 10 January 2018
- Consultation expiry
- 8 February 2018
- Consultation start
- 15 January 2018
- Consultation end
- 8 February 2018
- Last date for comments
- 11 May 2018
- Target decision date
- 11 April 2018
- Permission expires
- 20 April 2021
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Mr Michael Edgar Ground Floor V1 Velocity 2 Tenter Street Sheffield S1 4BY
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 91 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 18 January 2018
- Advertisement expiry
- 8 February 2018
- Site notice start
- 17 January 2018
- Site notice end
- 7 February 2018
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-06586872
- Documents
- 62
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Brownfield land register: 178 West Street, Sheffield, S1 4ETRegister 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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