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The Grand Posthouse And Former Criterion Hotel 62 - 70 Lichfield Street City Centre Wolverhampton West Midlands WV1 1DB

15/00824/FULFull ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 6 October 2015

Council decision: GrantDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Proposed change of use and alterations to second and third floors to create live / work units

Received
23 July 2015
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
St Peters
  1. Received23 Jul
  2. Validated23 Jul
  3. Consult.13 Aug
  4. Target17 Sep
  5. Decided6 Oct

Decided in 75 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at The Grand Posthouse And Former Criterion Hotel 62 - 70 Lichfield Street City Centre Wolverhampton West Midlands WV1 1DB. Wolverhampton has handled 1,032 applications of this type. This one was decided in 75 days, 5 weeks longer than Wolverhampton's typical decision time. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 43 applications across St Peters. We hold 632 applications in total for the WV1 postcode area.

87% of full applications at Wolverhampton City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 6 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
WV1 1DB
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 July 2015
Consultation expiry
30 September 2017
Consultation start
23 July 2015
Consultation end
13 August 2015
Neighbour consultation start
30 September 2017
Neighbour consultation end
30 September 2017
Last date for comments
13 August 2015
Target decision date
17 September 2015
Committee meeting
30 September 2017
Decision published
30 September 2017
Permission expires
6 October 2018

Applicant and agent

Agent
designtobuild
Agent address
159 Ivyhouse Lane Coseley Dudley West Midlands (Met County) WV14 9LA United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
30 September 2017
Advertisement expiry
30 September 2017
Site notice start
30 September 2017
Site notice end
30 September 2017

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-04370952
Documents
14

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Not published by this council, so not checked: conservation areas and Article 4 directions. Ask the council if these matter.

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (19)

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 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

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© 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. 2015
    23 Jul

    Proposed change of use and alterations to second and third floors to create live / work units

    This applicationApprovedFull15/00824/FUL
  2. 2015
    23 Jul

    Proposed change of use and alterations to second and third floors to create live / work units

    ApprovedListed building consentFiled alongside15/00825/LBC

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