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University Of Sheffield Richard Roberts Building Brook Hill Sheffield S3 7HF

26/00218/LU1Certificate of Lawful Use (Existing)Refused
Lawful development certificate

Refused on 13 April 2026

Council decision: RefuseDelegated (officer decision)

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Confirmation that development pursuant to planning permission reference 22/03808/FUL, granted on 01/12/22, was lawfully commenced prior to the three-year expiry date of 01/12/25 (Application under Section 191)

Received
27 January 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Broomhill And Sharrow Vale
  1. Received27 Jan
  2. Validated27 Jan
  3. Consult.20 Feb
  4. Target24 Mar
  5. Decided13 Apr

Decided in 76 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at University Of Sheffield Richard Roberts Building Brook Hill Sheffield S3 7HF. Sheffield has handled 527 applications of this type. This one was decided in 76 days, 3 weeks longer than Sheffield's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 58 applications across Broomhill And Sharrow Vale. We hold 572 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 7HF
Application type
Certificate of Lawful Use (Existing)
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 January 2026
Last date for comments
20 February 2026
Target decision date
24 March 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Michael Edgar Ground Floor V1 Velocity 2 Tenter Street Sheffield S1 4BY

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14579866
Comments
0
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.

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