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Former Wednesfield High School Lakefield Road Wolverhampton West Midlands WV11 3ES

17/01089/FULFull ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 1 November 2017

Council decision: GrantPlanning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Proposed residential development comprising 210 houses and 56 apartments with associated landscaping, highway amendments, parking and ancillary buildings.

Received
15 September 2017
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Wednesfield South
  1. Received15 Sep
  2. Validated15 Sep
  3. Consult.7 Nov
  4. Target10 Nov
  5. Decided1 Nov

Decided in 47 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Former Wednesfield High School Lakefield Road Wolverhampton West Midlands WV11 3ES. Wolverhampton has handled 1,032 applications of this type. This one was decided in 47 days, 5 days longer than Wolverhampton's typical decision time. The site is in 4 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 16 applications across Wednesfield South. We hold 654 applications in total for the WV11 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
WV11 3ES
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
210

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 September 2017
Consultation expiry
7 November 2017
Consultation start
1 November 2017
Consultation end
7 November 2017
Neighbour consultation start
24 October 2017
Neighbour consultation end
7 November 2017
Last date for comments
7 November 2017
Target decision date
10 November 2017
Committee meeting
16 January 2018
Decision issued
31 January 2018
Permission expires
31 January 2021

Applicant and agent

Agent
Architype
Agent address
Architype Upper Twyford Hereford HR2 8AD United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
23 September 2017
Advertisement expiry
14 October 2017
Site notice start
19 September 2017
Site notice end
10 October 2017

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-06227531
Documents
80

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.

Associated applications

  1. 2018
    21 Nov

    Section 73 - to vary condition 2 of planning application 17/01089/FUL

    ApprovedVariation of conditions (s73)18/01381/RC
  2. 2017
    15 Sep

    Proposed residential development comprising 210 houses and 56 apartments with associated landscaping, highway…

    This applicationApprovedFull17/01089/FUL

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