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Good Shepherd Centre Thornley Street Wolverhampton West Midlands WV1 1JS

17/00794/FULFull ApplicationApproved
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Approved on 25 August 2017

Council decision: GrantDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of former hostel to provide student accommodation. Formation of new entrance foyer at ground floor and partial conversion to form cafe and restaurant. Landscaped garden area to rear and car park extension.

Received
11 July 2017
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
St Peters
Agent
ACP Architects
  1. Received11 Jul
  2. Validated13 Jul
  3. Consult.3 Aug
  4. Target7 Sep
  5. Decided25 Aug

Decided in 43 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Good Shepherd Centre Thornley Street Wolverhampton West Midlands WV1 1JS. Wolverhampton has handled 1,032 applications of this type. This one was decided in 45 days, 3 days 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 1JS
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
13 July 2017
Consultation expiry
25 August 2017
Consultation start
25 August 2017
Consultation end
3 August 2017
Neighbour consultation start
13 July 2017
Neighbour consultation end
3 August 2017
Last date for comments
3 August 2017
Target decision date
7 September 2017
Committee meeting
25 August 2017
Decision issued
29 November 2017
Permission expires
29 November 2020

Applicant and agent

Agent
ACP Architects
Agent address
Roma Parva Second Floor 9 Waterloo Road Wolverhampton WV1 4DJ United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
25 August 2017
Advertisement expiry
25 August 2017
Site notice start
25 August 2017
Site notice end
25 August 2017

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-06214102
Documents
22

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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 (21)

flood storage 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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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© 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.

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