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National Grid Electricity Distribution Commercial Road Wolverhampton West Midlands

25/00009/TELTelecommunications PA(not notifications)Refused
Prior approval

Refused on 7 April 2025

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

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Installation of essential telemetry equipment comprising 24.7 metres mast, antennas, transmission dishes, equipment housings, emergency backup generators, electricity meter cabinet, development ancillary to radio equipment housing and ancillary development thereto.

Received
8 January 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
St Peters
  1. Received8 Jan
  2. Validated8 Jan
  3. Consult.7 Feb
  4. Target19 Feb
  5. Decided7 Apr

Decided in 89 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is a telecoms application at National Grid Electricity Distribution Commercial Road Wolverhampton West Midlands. Wolverhampton has handled 26 applications of this type. This one was decided in 89 days, 7 weeks longer than Wolverhampton's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 43 applications across St Peters.

88% of all 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
Telecommunications PA(not notifications)
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
8 January 2025
Consultation expiry
7 February 2025
Last date for comments
7 February 2025
Target decision date
19 February 2025
Permission expires
7 April 2030

Applicant and agent

Agent
Needham Haddrell
Agent address
8 Hide Market West Street Bristol BS2 0BH

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Publicity

Site notice start
17 January 2025
Site notice end
7 February 2025

Appeal

Appeal reference
REF/25/0309
Appeal status
Appeal decided
Appeal result
Appeal Allowed

Appeal history

3365650
Allowed
Type: Planning AppealProcedure: Written RepresentationsDecision: 24 September 2025Dev Type: Other minor developmentsReason: Refusal

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13594636
Documents
16

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Brownfield land register: Former Robert W Harris (Engineering) Ltd Navigation Street Wolverhampton West Midlands WV…Register 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.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

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