Council Chamber Building Civic Centre Gravel Hill Wombourne WOLVERHAMPTON WV5 9HA
Approved on 19 May 2025
Delegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Installation of photo voltaic solar panels to roof.
- Received
- 14 March 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Wombourne North
- ReceivedReceived14 Mar
- ValidatedValidated18 Mar
- Consult.Consultation17 Apr
- TargetTarget Date28 May
- DecidedDecided19 May
Decided in 62 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an outline application for a solar installation at Council Chamber Building Civic Centre Gravel Hill Wombourne WOLVERHAMPTON WV5 9HA. South Staffordshire has handled 477 applications of this type. This one was decided in 66 days, 10 days longer than South Staffordshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Wombourne conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 53 applications across Wombourne North. We hold 500 applications in total for the WV5 postcode area.
74% of outline applications at South Staffordshire District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- WV5 9HA
- Application type
- Certificate of Lawfulness - proposed
- Scale / size
- Medium
- Parish
- WOMBOURNE
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 18 March 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 17 April 2025
- Consultation start
- 24 March 2025
- Consultation end
- 17 April 2025
- Last date for comments
- 17 April 2025
- Target decision date
- 28 May 2025
- Permission expires
- 19 May 2025
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Broad Planning And Architecture Technology Centre Glashier Drive Wolverhampton Science Park Wolverhampton WV10 9RU
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 71 days
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Wombourne Conservation Area Management Plan
- Local nature reserve: Wom Brook WalkPart of the site
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (21)
flood storage areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, 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, 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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Source: South Staffordshire
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