Marks And Spencer 19 - 24 Dudley Street City Centre Wolverhampton West Midlands WV1 3EY
Approved on 5 January 2026
Council decision: Grant - Prior Approval RequiredDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Conversion of vacant department store to provide 71 residential flats (a mix of studio, one-bed and two-bed units) on the ground, first, second and third floors, with retail use retained along Dudley Street. Part demolition to create a ground-floor residential amenity courtyard. Residential access from Market Street. Retention of the existing goods service yard to serve the retail units.
- Received
- 8 December 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Wolverhampton City Council
- Ward
- St Peters
- Agent
- Leonard Design Architects
- ReceivedReceived8 Dec
- ValidatedValidated8 Dec
- Consult.Consultation31 Dec
- TargetTarget Date2 Feb
- DecidedDecided5 Jan
Decided in 28 days (council typically 42)
About this application
This is an outline application for demolition at Marks And Spencer 19 - 24 Dudley Street City Centre Wolverhampton West Midlands WV1 3EY. Wolverhampton has handled 517 applications of this type. This one was decided in 28 days, 2 weeks quicker than Wolverhampton's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application 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 3EY
- Application type
- Other PD Prior Approvals
- Scale / size
- Large
- Number of dwellings
- 71
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 8 December 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 31 December 2025
- Last date for comments
- 31 December 2025
- Target decision date
- 2 February 2026
- Permission expires
- 5 January 2031
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Leonard Design Architects
- Architect profile
- LEONARD DESIGN LIMITED
- Agent address
- 4th Floor Albion House 5-13 Canal Street Nottingham NG1 7EG
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 10 December 2025
- Site notice end
- 31 December 2025
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14536932
- Documents
- 7
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Brownfield land register: 54 - 55 Woolpack Street WolverhamptonRegister site at or near this address · +1 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 (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.
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Planning history at this site
1 other application at this property, newest first.
Source: Wolverhampton
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