Express And Star Queen Street Wolverhampton WV1 1ES
Approved on 15 January 2025
Council decision: Grant - Prior Approval RequiredDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Conversion of building into 38 flats.
- Received
- 5 December 2024
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Wolverhampton City Council
- Ward
- St Peters
- Agent
- THE NEWSPAPER BUILDING LTD
- ReceivedReceived5 Dec
- ValidatedValidated6 Dec
- Consult.Consultation30 Dec
- TargetTarget Date31 Jan
- DecidedDecided15 Jan
Decided in 40 days (council typically 42)
About this application
This is an outline application at Express And Star Queen Street Wolverhampton WV1 1ES. Wolverhampton has handled 517 applications of this type. This one was decided in 41 days. 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 632 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 1ES
- Application type
- Other PD Prior Approvals
- Scale / size
- Medium
- Number of dwellings
- 38
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 6 December 2024
- Consultation expiry
- 30 December 2024
- Last date for comments
- 30 December 2024
- Target decision date
- 31 January 2025
- Permission expires
- 15 January 2030
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- THE NEWSPAPER BUILDING LTD
- Agent address
- Express And Star Queen Street Wolverhampton WV1 1ES
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 9 December 2024
- Site notice end
- 30 December 2024
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-13602654
- Documents
- 6
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)
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 (19)
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