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12-16 Town Road, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, ST1 2JQ

68091/FULFull Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 20 February 2023

Council decision: Grant with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Sub-division of the ground floor into six commercial units (Use Class E), erection of an additional storey, and change of use of upper floors to create eighteen self-contained residential units

Received
31 May 2022
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Etruria & Hanley
  1. Received31 May
  2. Validated6 Jul
  3. Consult.21 Jun
  4. Target
  5. Decided20 Feb

Decided in 229 days (council typically 70)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 12-16 Town Road, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, ST1 2JQ. Stoke on Trent has handled 2,420 applications of this type. This one was decided in 265 days, 28 weeks longer than Stoke on Trent's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 48 applications across Etruria & Hanley. We hold 1,371 applications in total for the ST1 postcode area.

80% of full applications at Stoke-on-Trent City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 10 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
ST1 2JQ
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
6 July 2022
Consultation expiry
21 June 2023
Consultation start
8 July 2022
Consultation end
21 June 2023
Neighbour consultation start
8 July 2022
Neighbour consultation end
21 June 2023
Last date for comments
5 October 2022
Application expires
5 October 2022

Applicant and agent

Agent
Smytheman Architectural
Agent address
22 Doreen Avenue, Congleton, CW12 3JE

Planning decision

Statutory period
91 days

Publicity

Last advertised
22 July 2022
Advertisement expiry
21 June 2023
Site notice start
18 July 2022
Site notice end
21 June 2023

Additional information

Documents
59

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Brownfield land register: 12-16 Town Road, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, ST1 2JQRegister site at or near this address · +1 more
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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, 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.

Associated applications

  1. 2025
    3 Jun

    Application to discharge condition 8 (cycle parking) on application 68091/FUL

    Condition DischargedDischarge of conditions25/DCC/00157
  2. 2025
    26 Mar

    Variation for condition 11 (opening hours) of permission 68091/FUL

    RefusedVariation of conditions (s73)72001/VAR
  3. 2022
    31 May

    Sub-division of the ground floor into six commercial units (Use Class E), erection of an additional storey…

    This applicationApprovedFull68091/FUL

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