Former Littlewoods Home Shopping Group Commercial Road Sunderland
Approved on 9 May 2019
Planning committee
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Proposal
Construction of builders merchants with ancillary trade counter and outdoor storage (including modifications to access, parking and turning space, landscaping and boundary fence to west)
- Received
- 2 November 2018
- Decision level
- Planning committee
- Public comments
- 1
- Council
- Sunderland City Council
- Ward
- Hendon
- ReceivedReceived2 Nov
- ValidatedValidated19 Dec
- Consult.Consultation29 Apr
- TargetTarget Date10 May
- DecidedDecided9 May
Decided in 141 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a full planning application at Former Littlewoods Home Shopping Group Commercial Road Sunderland. Sunderland has handled 694 applications of this type. This one was decided in 188 days, 20 weeks longer than Sunderland's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 21 applications across Hendon.
92% of full applications at Sunderland City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Application type
- Full Application (Reg 4)
- Scale / size
- Medium
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 19 December 2018
- Consultation expiry
- 29 April 2019
- Consultation start
- 8 April 2019
- Consultation end
- 29 April 2019
- Neighbour consultation start
- 20 December 2018
- Neighbour consultation end
- 10 January 2019
- Last date for comments
- 13 February 2019
- Target decision date
- 10 May 2019
- Committee meeting
- 8 May 2019
- Permission expires
- 9 May 2024
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Mr Nicholas Ryder The Chapel Old Cherry Lane Lymm WA13 0SZ United Kingdom
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 142 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 23 January 2019
- Advertisement expiry
- 13 February 2019
- Site notice start
- 18 January 2019
- Site notice end
- 8 February 2019
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-07281516
- Documents
- 66
- Constraints
- 21
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.
Also checked, none recorded (22)
flood storage areas, conservation 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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