Wolverhampton Art Gallery Lichfield Street City Centre Wolverhampton West Midlands WV1 1DU

15/01265/LBCListed Building ConsentApproved

Approved on 24 March 2016

Council decision: GrantDelegated (officer decision)

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Proposal

Internal alterations comprising removal of suspended ceiling and installation of lighting truss/track for hanging equipment/spotlights and ancillary works

Received: 6 November 2015
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Wolverhampton City Council
Ward: St Peters

ReceivedReceived6 Nov
ValidatedValidated15 Dec
Consult.Consultation14 Sep
TargetTarget Date9 Feb
DecidedDecided24 Mar

Decided in 100 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is a heritage application at Wolverhampton Art Gallery Lichfield Street City Centre Wolverhampton West Midlands WV1 1DU. Wolverhampton has handled 164 applications of this type. This one was decided in 139 days, 14 weeks longer than Wolverhampton's typical decision time. The site is in 19 listed buildings nearby. There have been 4 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.

94% of heritage 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 1DU
Application type: Listed Building Consent
Scale / size: Small

Planning application dates

Date validated: 15 December 2015
Consultation expiry: 14 September 2017
Consultation start: 14 September 2017
Consultation end: 14 September 2017
Neighbour consultation start: 14 September 2017
Neighbour consultation end: 14 September 2017
Last date for comments: 13 February 2016
Target decision date: 9 February 2016
Committee meeting: 14 September 2017
Decision published: 14 September 2017
Permission expires: 24 March 2019

Planning decision

Statutory period: 56 days

Publicity

Last advertised: 23 January 2016
Advertisement expiry: 13 February 2016
Site notice start: 21 December 2015
Site notice end: 11 January 2016

Additional information

Planning Portal ID: PP-04576049
Documents: 13

Site constraints

Checking the site

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Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Listed building: Grade II*: Art Gallery and MuseumOn this site · +6 more
Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

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 (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.

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7 other applications at this property, newest first.

Source: Wolverhampton

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