Former Electricity Substation Watling Street Tamworth B77 5AB

0168/2023FullApproved

Approved on 21 July 2023

Council decision: Approval with conditionsDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Change of use from substation to office use E class (g) (i)

Received: 15 May 2023
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Tamworth Borough Council
Ward: Belgrave

ReceivedReceived15 May
ValidatedValidated17 May
Consult.Consultation14 Jun
TargetTarget Date26 Jun
DecidedDecided21 Jul

Decided in 65 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Former Electricity Substation Watling Street Tamworth B77 5AB. Tamworth has handled 1,054 applications of this type. This one was decided in 67 days, 11 days longer than Tamworth's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 8 applications across Belgrave. We hold 1,371 applications in total for the B77 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: B77 5AB
Application type: Full
Development type: Commerical, businesses & service uses
Scale / size: Small

Planning application dates

Date validated: 17 May 2023
Consultation expiry: 14 June 2023
Consultation start: 18 May 2023
Consultation end: 14 June 2023
Last date for comments: 14 June 2023
Target decision date: 26 June 2023
Application expires: 10 July 2023
Permission expires: 21 July 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period: 54 days

Additional information

Documents: 5

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

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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