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Former Goodyear Tyres Site Mercury Drive Wolverhampton West Midlands

20/01298/REMApproval of Reserved MattersApproved
Reserved matters

Approved on 17 December 2020

Council decision: GrantDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Approval of Reserved Matters (Appearance, Scale, Layout and Landscaping) pursuant to Outline Planning Permission Ref. 17/00671/OUT for residential development consisting of 228 dwellings. Re-Plan of Plots 139-145 previously approved under 19/00980/REM.

Received
30 October 2020
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Bushbury South And Low Hill
  1. Received30 Oct
  2. Validated30 Oct
  3. Consult.23 Nov
  4. Target25 Dec
  5. Decided17 Dec

Decided in 48 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is an outline application at Former Goodyear Tyres Site Mercury Drive Wolverhampton West Midlands. Wolverhampton has handled 517 applications of this type. This one was decided in 48 days, 6 days longer 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
Large
Number of dwellings
228

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 October 2020
Consultation expiry
28 November 2020
Neighbour consultation start
2 November 2020
Neighbour consultation end
23 November 2020
Last date for comments
28 November 2020
Target decision date
25 December 2020
Permission expires
17 December 2022

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
7 November 2020
Advertisement expiry
28 November 2020

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-09197633
Documents
19

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Brownfield land register: Goodyear Tyre Factory, Stafford Road, WolverhamptonRegister site at or near this address
  • 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 (20)

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 and heritage coasts.

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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