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2-3 Market Street Tamworth B79 7LU

0059/2024FullApproved

Approved on 24 May 2024

Council decision: Approval with conditionsDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Change of use from Retail (use class E) to Sports Lounge (use class Sui Generis)

Received
15 March 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Castle
  1. Received15 Mar
  2. Validated18 Mar
  3. Consult.9 May
  4. Target26 Apr
  5. Decided24 May

Decided in 67 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 2-3 Market Street Tamworth B79 7LU. Tamworth has handled 1,054 applications of this type. This one was decided in 70 days, 2 weeks longer than Tamworth's typical decision time. The site is in the Tamworth, Town Centre conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 34 applications across Castle. We hold 606 applications in total for the B79 postcode area.

98% of full applications at Tamworth Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
B79 7LU
Application type
Full
Development type
Sui Generis
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
18 March 2024
Consultation expiry
9 May 2024
Consultation start
18 March 2024
Consultation end
9 May 2024
Last date for comments
9 May 2024
Target decision date
26 April 2024
Application expires
10 May 2024
Permission expires
24 May 2027

Planning decision

Statutory period
53 days

Publicity

First advertised
28 March 2024
Site notice start
25 March 2024

Additional information

Documents
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: Tamworth, Town Centre
  • Listed building: Grade II: 1, Silver StreetOn or next to this site · +1 more
  • 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 (20)

flood storage areas, 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.

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. 2024
    15 Mar

    Change of use from Retail (use class E) to Sports Lounge (use class Sui Generis)

    This applicationApproval with conditionsFull0059/2024
  2. 2024
    15 Mar

    Internal alterations to a Grade II Listed Building

    Consent with ConditionsListed building consentFiled alongside0060/2024

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