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Northgate House 178 West Street City Centre Sheffield S1 4ET

23/02706/CDPNCommercial to Dwelling Prior NotifApproved

Approved on 30 October 2023

Council decision: Grant Conditionally Prior NotificationDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Conversion of office block (Use Class E) to form 19 No. residential flats (Use Class C3) and associated works

Received
22 August 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
2
Ward
City
  1. Received22 Aug
  2. Validated30 Aug
  3. Consult.21 Sep
  4. Target25 Oct
  5. Decided30 Oct

Decided in 61 days

About this application

This is a planning application at Northgate House 178 West Street City Centre Sheffield S1 4ET. Sheffield has handled 9,053 applications of this type. This one was decided in 69 days, 13 days longer than Sheffield's typical decision time. The site is in 3 listed buildings nearby. 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.

Application details

Postcode
S1 4ET
Application type
Commercial to Dwelling Prior Notif
Scale / size
Medium
Number of dwellings
19

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 August 2023
Consultation expiry
27 October 2023
Consultation start
31 August 2023
Consultation end
21 September 2023
Last date for comments
27 October 2023
Target decision date
25 October 2023
Permission expires
30 October 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent address
FAO Mr Mike Leigh 226 - 228 Holme Lane Sheffield S6 4JZ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
2 October 2023
Site notice end
27 October 2023

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12397130
Documents
10

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: City CentrePart of the site
  • 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: 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.

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.

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Associated applications

  1. 2025
    27 Mar

    Application to approve details in relation to condition number(s): 3 (Noise Survey) and 4 (Sound Attenuation…

    Condition Application DecidedDischarge of conditions23/02706/COND1
  2. 2023
    22 Aug

    Conversion of office block (Use Class E) to form 19 No. residential flats (Use Class C3) and associated works

    This applicationApprovedApplication23/02706/CDPN

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