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Former Ambulance Service Headquarters 70 Stone Road Stafford Staffordshire ST16 2RS

11/15123/FULFull ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 12 August 2011

Council decision: AllowedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Demolition of existing buildings and erection of local top-up convenience shop and 2 buildings for non-residential institutions.

Received
2 March 2011
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
3
Ward
Common
  1. Received2 Mar
  2. Validated22 Mar
  3. Consult.10 May
  4. Target
  5. Decided12 Aug

Decided in 143 days (council typically 91)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at Former Ambulance Service Headquarters 70 Stone Road Stafford Staffordshire ST16 2RS. Stafford has handled 3,847 applications of this type. This one was decided in 163 days, 10 weeks longer than Stafford's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 3 applications across Common. We hold 590 applications in total for the ST16 postcode area.

85% of full applications at Stafford Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 13 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
ST16 2RS
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
22 March 2011
Consultation expiry
10 May 2011
Consultation end
10 May 2011
Neighbour consultation end
3 May 2011
Last date for comments
3 June 2011
Permission expires
12 August 2014

Applicant and agent

Agent address
FAO: Mr Patrick Clifton 12th Floor Eleven Brindley Place 2 Brunswick Square Brindley Place Birmingham West Midlands B1 2LP

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
15 April 2011
Site notice end
13 April 2011

Additional information

Documents
39

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: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, 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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