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Crown House Birch Street Wolverhampton West Midlands WV1 4DS

18/00115/PAOCOUPrior Approval Offices to ResidentialApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 29 March 2018

Council decision: Grant - Prior Approval RequiredDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of Use from B1(a) Offices to C3 Residential (102 Units).

Received
29 January 2018
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
St Peters
Agent
Montagu Evans LLP
  1. Received29 Jan
  2. Validated30 Jan
  3. Consult.1 Apr
  4. Target27 Mar
  5. Decided29 Mar

Decided in 58 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Crown House Birch Street Wolverhampton West Midlands WV1 4DS. Wolverhampton has handled 517 applications of this type. This one was decided in 59 days, 2 weeks longer than Wolverhampton's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 43 applications across St Peters. We hold 633 applications in total for the WV1 postcode area.

93% of outline 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 4DS
Application type
Prior Approval Offices to Residential
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 January 2018
Consultation expiry
1 April 2018
Consultation start
1 April 2018
Consultation end
1 April 2018
Neighbour consultation start
1 April 2018
Neighbour consultation end
1 April 2018
Target decision date
27 March 2018
Committee meeting
1 April 2018
Decision published
1 April 2018
Permission expires
29 March 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent
Montagu Evans LLP
Agent address
5 Bolton Street London W1J 8BA

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
1 April 2018
Advertisement expiry
1 April 2018
Site notice start
1 April 2018
Site notice end
1 April 2018

Additional information

Documents
29

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.

Associated applications

  1. 2018
    29 Jan

    Change of Use from B1(a) Offices to C3 Residential (102 Units).

    This applicationApprovedOutline18/00115/PAOCOU
  2. 2018
    29 Jan

    Change of Use from B1(a) Offices to C3 Residential (102 Units)

    ApprovedPrior Approval Offices to ResidentialFiled alongside18/00115/PDPA

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