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Unit 3 Sears Retail Park Shirley Solihull

PL/2003/02202/CLDCert. Lawful DevelopmentApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 6 August 2003

Council decision: CLOPUD ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Certificate of lawfulness for use of premises as a catalogue retail store

Received
16 June 2003
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Shirley East
  1. Received16 Jun
  2. Validated16 Jun
  3. Consult.
  4. Target11 Aug
  5. Decided6 Aug

Decided in 51 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Unit 3 Sears Retail Park Shirley Solihull. Solihull has handled 430 applications of this type. This one was decided in 51 days, 5 days quicker than Solihull's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 18 applications across Shirley East.

79% of amendment applications at Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Application type
Cert. Lawful Development
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 June 2003
Neighbour consultation start
16 June 2003
Target decision date
11 August 2003
Permission expires
6 August 2008

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
2

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)

Not published by this council, so not checked: conservation areas and Article 4 directions. Ask the council if these matter.

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

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, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

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© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

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