Land at Gibbet Hill Road and Westwood Heath Road, Coventry Data via plota.co.uk

PL/2026/0001591/NAC - NAC Neighbouring authority consultation Pending Consideration
Admin / procedural

Proposal

Consultation from Warwick District Council on application for Reserved matters application pursuant to condition 1 of planning permission for details of access, appearance, landscaping, layout and scale for the erection of a 28,923 sqm (GIA) building to house teaching, lecture, collaboration and research spaces with ground floor ancillary café (use class F1(a)) with associated sub station, servicing access, public realm, and landscaping Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
11 Sept 2026
Decision
Expected by 2 Oct 2026

This application is under consideration - no decision has been issued yet. A decision is expected by 2 Oct 2026.

Documents 6

Statements & assessments 5

PDF W/26/1269 Condition 24 - Transport Strategy DWG 21134-AAR-01x480-XX-DR-AR-910099 Rev P01 Transport assessment · 11 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF W/26/1269 Planning Statement University of Warwick Social Sciences Quarter August 2026 Planning statement · 11 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF W/26/1269 Design and Access Statement August: P04 Design and access statement · 11 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF W/26/1269 Heritage Statement Social Sciences Quarter, University of Warwick August 2026 Heritage statement · 11 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF W/26/1269 Energy Statement 21134 -CDL-XXxxXXX-XX-RP-SU-440001 Rev P03 Energy statement · 11 Sept 2026 View ↗

Plans & drawings 1

PDF W/26/1269 Site Location Plan DWG 21134-AAR-01x480-XX-DR-AR-900099 Rev P01 Location plan · 11 Sept 2026 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 7

Flood zone 2, rivers and sea
Medium chance: between a 1 in 100 and 1 in 1,000 annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 to 1 in 1,000 from the sea. Any development here needs a flood risk assessment. Defences are not counted.
The Environment Agency flood map for planning. Homes in zone 3 must also pass the sequential test. Surface water flooding is a separate map.
Flood map ↗
Article 4 direction
HMO - 30.9.23. Named permitted development rights are withdrawn here.
An Article 4 direction withdraws particular permitted development rights, so work that would normally need no application needs one here. Not every council has published its directions.
Local nature reserve about 18 m away: Tocil Wood & Meadow
Work nearby can need a habitats assessment.
Harm to a protected site is only accepted where there is no alternative and an overriding public interest.
Air quality management area: Coventry City-Wide AQMA
The council has declared the area as failing an air quality objective.
Schemes that add traffic, parking or combustion plant are assessed against the area's action plan and may need an air quality assessment.
Council record ↗
Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 2
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
Priority habitat about 18 m away: Coastal and floodplain grazing marsh; Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) had this area as grade 3, but it predates the buildings here and the current map does not class it as farmland.
Not affected
Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 1 October 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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Important details

Council
Coventry
Application type
NAC Neighbouring authority consultation
Received
11 Sept 2026
Validated
11 Sept 2026
Case officer
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Target decision
2 Oct 2026
Decision level
Delegated decision
Applicant
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Consultation & key dates

Statutory expiry
2 Oct 2026
Coventry
Planning Authority Score
7.7/10
Good
#35 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

Coventry is one of the fastest councils in England for householder decisions, ranking #13 out of 296. Only 13% of applications have the time limit extended, well below the 41% national average - the council usually decides on time. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (90%) than the national average (90%).

Among the fastest councils in England
for householder decisions
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
Coventry decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
84%
Overall approval rate
Below avg (87%) #219 of 296
90%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #189 of 296
91%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #13 of 296
13%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #7 of 296
72%
Minor dwellings approved
114 decided (1-9 homes)
89%
Major dwellings approved
28 decided (10+ homes)
74%
Change of use approved
100 decided
1,131
Total decisions
186 refused in the year to March 2026
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings