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Orchard Studios 40 Lambert Street Sheffield S3 7AA

24/03723/CHUPlanning Application for Change of UseApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 28 March 2025

Council decision: Grant ConditionallyDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of building from C3 (dwellinghouses) to C2 (residential institution) family support unit

Received
23 December 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
City
  1. Received23 Dec
  2. Validated23 Dec
  3. Consult.28 Jan
  4. Target17 Feb
  5. Decided28 Mar

Decided in 95 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Orchard Studios 40 Lambert Street Sheffield S3 7AA. Sheffield has handled 527 applications of this type. This one was decided in 95 days, 6 weeks longer than Sheffield's typical decision time. The site is in 3 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 150 applications across City. We hold 574 applications in total for the S3 postcode area.

88% of amendment 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
S3 7AA
Application type
Planning Application for Change of Use
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 December 2024
Consultation expiry
10 February 2025
Consultation start
7 January 2025
Consultation end
28 January 2025
Last date for comments
10 February 2025
Target decision date
17 February 2025
Permission expires
28 March 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Fao Marcin Skomski Pearl Assurance House Friar Lane Nottingham NG1 6BT

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
16 January 2025
Site notice end
10 February 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13642513
Documents
11

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Furnace HillPart of the site
  • Heritage at Risk Register: Furnace Hill, SheffieldPart of the site
  • Brownfield land register: 14 - 18 West Bar Green Sheffield S1 2DARegister 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, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, 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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© 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.

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