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Ruksar Nursing Home 26 Park Avenue Whitmore Reans Wolverhampton West Midlands WV1 4AH

17/00996/FULFull ApplicationApproved
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Approved on 17 November 2017

Council decision: GrantPlanning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use from existing care home (C2) to 40 Bed Student Accommodation (Sui-Generis) with addition of roof to create bedrooms

Received
30 August 2017
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Park
Agent
Design Space 2 Ltd
  1. Received30 Aug
  2. Validated30 Aug
  3. Consult.1 Aug
  4. Target25 Oct
  5. Decided17 Nov

Decided in 79 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Ruksar Nursing Home 26 Park Avenue Whitmore Reans Wolverhampton West Midlands WV1 4AH. Wolverhampton has handled 1,032 applications of this type. This one was decided in 79 days, 5 weeks longer than Wolverhampton's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 26 applications across Park. 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 4AH
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 August 2017
Consultation expiry
1 August 2019
Consultation start
1 August 2019
Consultation end
1 August 2019
Neighbour consultation start
29 November 2017
Neighbour consultation end
20 December 2017
Last date for comments
20 December 2017
Target decision date
25 October 2017
Committee meeting
14 November 2017
Decision published
1 August 2019
Permission expires
17 November 2020

Applicant and agent

Agent
Design Space 2 Ltd
Architect profile
DESIGN SPACE 2 LTD
Agent address
408F The Big Peg 120 Vyse St Birmingham B18 6NF United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
1 August 2019
Advertisement expiry
1 August 2019
Site notice start
1 August 2019
Site notice end
1 August 2019

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-06338229
Documents
44

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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© 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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