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Former Goodyear Tyres Factory Site Mercury Drive Wolverhampton West Midlands

20/00785/REMApproval of Reserved MattersApproved
Reserved matters

Approved on 17 August 2020

Council decision: GrantDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Erection of 11 dwellings. Submission of reserved matters pursuant to outline approval 11/01022/EXT - access, appearance, landscaping, layout and scale to be considered.

Received
20 July 2020
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Bushbury South And Low Hill
  1. Received20 Jul
  2. Validated20 Jul
  3. Consult.10 Aug
  4. Target14 Sep
  5. Decided17 Aug

Decided in 28 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is an outline application for a new dwelling at Former Goodyear Tyres Factory Site Mercury Drive Wolverhampton West Midlands. Wolverhampton has handled 517 applications of this type. This one was decided in 28 days, 2 weeks quicker than Wolverhampton's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 7 applications across Bushbury South And Low Hill.

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

Application type
Approval of Reserved Matters
Scale / size
Medium
Number of dwellings
11

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 July 2020
Consultation expiry
15 August 2020
Neighbour consultation start
20 July 2020
Neighbour consultation end
10 August 2020
Last date for comments
15 August 2020
Target decision date
14 September 2020
Permission expires
17 August 2022

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
25 July 2020
Advertisement expiry
15 August 2020
Site notice start
20 July 2020
Site notice end
10 August 2020

Additional information

Documents
27

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.

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