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The Gatehouse Well Lane Wolverhampton West Midlands WV11 1XR

25/00556/PASCOUTo State Funded School or Reg NurseryRefused
Prior approval

Refused on 11 June 2025

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

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Prior approval application for a proposed change of use to a state funded school to provide full-time and part-time education for a maximum of 15 children and young people aged 11 to16 who are at risk of exclusion and disengagement from mainstream education.

Received
13 May 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Wednesfield South
  1. Received13 May
  2. Validated13 May
  3. Consult.
  4. Target8 Jul
  5. Decided11 Jun

Decided in 29 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is a planning application for a change of use at The Gatehouse Well Lane Wolverhampton West Midlands WV11 1XR. Wolverhampton has handled 20 applications of this type. This one was decided in 29 days, 13 days quicker than Wolverhampton's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 16 applications across Wednesfield South. We hold 654 applications in total for the WV11 postcode area.

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

Postcode
WV11 1XR
Application type
To State Funded School or Reg Nursery
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
13 May 2025
Target decision date
8 July 2025
Permission expires
11 June 2030

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14013204
Documents
5

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • 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

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© 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.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Wolverhampton

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