Ground And First Floor Former Offices Castle Street Wolverhampton WV1 3AD
Approved on 19 November 2024
Council decision: Grant - Prior Approval RequiredDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Change of use from offices to 12, one and two bedroom apartments.
- Received
- 11 October 2024
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Wolverhampton City Council
- Ward
- St Peters
- Agent
- Spector Design Ltd
- ReceivedReceived11 Oct
- ValidatedValidated28 Oct
- Consult.Consultation18 Nov
- TargetTarget Date23 Dec
- DecidedDecided19 Nov
Decided in 22 days (council typically 42)
About this application
This is an outline application for a change of use at Ground And First Floor Former Offices Castle Street Wolverhampton WV1 3AD. Wolverhampton has handled 517 applications of this type. This one was decided in 39 days, 3 days quicker than Wolverhampton's typical decision time. The site is in 9 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded 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 3AD
- Application type
- Other PD Prior Approvals
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 28 October 2024
- Consultation expiry
- 18 November 2024
- Last date for comments
- 18 November 2024
- Target decision date
- 23 December 2024
- Permission expires
- 19 November 2029
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Spector Design Ltd
- Architect profile
- SPECTOR DESIGN LTD
- Agent address
- Regent House Bath Avenue Wolverhampton WV1 4EG
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 28 October 2024
- Site notice end
- 18 November 2024
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-13475693
- Documents
- 3
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Brownfield land register: Former Star Employment Services 56 Queen Street City Centre Wolverhampton WV1 3BJRegister site at or near this address · +3 more
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
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Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.
Also checked, none recorded (19)
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