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18 Lyndhurst Road Wolverhampton West Midlands WV3 0AA

26/00051/CPLCertificate Proposed Lawful Use/DevRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 5 March 2026

Council decision: RefuseDelegated (officer decision)

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Lawful Development Certificate for a change of use from Class C3 ("Dwelling houses") to Class C2, a small Children's Home that will be registered with Ofsted for up to three children.

Received
20 January 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Graiseley
Agent
Elmswood Care Limited
  1. Received20 Jan
  2. Validated20 Jan
  3. Consult.
  4. Target17 Mar
  5. Decided5 Mar

Decided in 44 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 18 Lyndhurst Road Wolverhampton West Midlands WV3 0AA. Wolverhampton has handled 517 applications of this type. This one was decided in 44 days. There has been 1 other application 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.

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
WV3 0AA
Application type
Certificate Proposed Lawful Use/Dev
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 January 2026
Target decision date
17 March 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Elmswood Care Limited
Agent address
3 Birchwood Road Penn Wolverhampton WV4 5UL

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14635054
Documents
6

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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