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24 Merridale Street West Wolverhampton West Midlands WV3 0RJ

25/01119/CPECertificate Existing Lawful Use/DevRefused
Lawful development certificate

Refused on 16 February 2026

Council decision: RefuseDelegated (officer decision)

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Lawful Development Certificate: for the existing use as childrens care home (use class C2) for up to 3 children and young people between 8-25 years of age, receiving 1:1 24-hour care from a rotation of carers and support staff.

Received
2 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Graiseley
Agent
Indigo Architects
  1. Received2 Oct
  2. Validated23 Dec
  3. Consult.
  4. Target17 Feb
  5. Decided16 Feb

Decided in 55 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 24 Merridale Street West Wolverhampton West Midlands WV3 0RJ. Wolverhampton has handled 27 applications of this type. This one was decided in 137 days, 14 weeks longer than Wolverhampton's typical decision time. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 19 applications across Graiseley. We hold 551 applications in total for the WV3 postcode area.

82% of amendment 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
WV3 0RJ
Application type
Certificate Existing Lawful Use/Dev
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 December 2025
Target decision date
17 February 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Indigo Architects
Architect profile
INDIGO ARCHITECTS LIMITED
Agent address
The Hollies Bridge Street Belper DE56 1BA

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14320999
Documents
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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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