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Watercliffe Meadow Primary School Boynton Road Sheffield S5 7HL

25/03113/LD2Certificate of Lawful Use Proposed DevApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 21 January 2026

Council decision: Grant Certificate of Lawful Use DevDelegated (officer decision)

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Erection of a single-storey building on the existing playground (Application under Section 192)

Received
17 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Burngreave
  1. Received17 Oct
  2. Validated28 Nov
  3. Consult.23 Dec
  4. Target23 Jan
  5. Decided21 Jan

Decided in 54 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Watercliffe Meadow Primary School Boynton Road Sheffield S5 7HL. Sheffield has handled 579 applications of this type. This one was decided in 96 days, 6 weeks longer than Sheffield's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 36 applications across Burngreave. We hold 504 applications in total for the S5 postcode area.

84% of outline 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
S5 7HL
Application type
Certificate of Lawful Use Proposed Dev
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 November 2025
Consultation expiry
23 December 2025
Consultation start
2 December 2025
Consultation end
23 December 2025
Last date for comments
23 December 2025
Target decision date
23 January 2026
Permission expires
21 January 2029

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14367554
Documents
12

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: conservation areas, 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

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© 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.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Sheffield

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