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Laycock Studios 37 Suffolk Road Sheffield S2 4BU

25/01755/CHUPlanning Application for Change of UseApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 13 August 2025

Council decision: Grant ConditionallyDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use from purpose-built student accommodation (sui generis) to purpose-built student accommodation with accommodation for both students and non-students during the months of June, July and August (mixed sui generis and C1 use).

Received
12 June 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
City
  1. Received12 Jun
  2. Validated12 Jun
  3. Consult.11 Jul
  4. Target7 Aug
  5. Decided13 Aug

Decided in 62 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Laycock Studios 37 Suffolk Road Sheffield S2 4BU. Sheffield has handled 527 applications of this type. This one was decided in 62 days, 6 days longer than Sheffield's typical decision time. The site is in the Cultural Industries Quarter conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 152 applications across City. We hold 492 applications in total for the S2 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
S2 4BU
Application type
Planning Application for Change of Use
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 June 2025
Consultation expiry
28 July 2025
Consultation start
20 June 2025
Consultation end
11 July 2025
Last date for comments
29 July 2025
Target decision date
7 August 2025
Permission expires
13 August 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent
Newmark
Agent address
Mr Dominic Page 1 Marsden Street Manchester M2 1HW

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
3 July 2025
Site notice end
28 July 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13957113
Documents
11

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Conservation area: Cultural Industries Quarter

Possibly incomplete for this council: Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers.

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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© 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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