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Greencoat House 259 Stratford Road Sparkhill Birmingham B11 1QS

2017/08051/PAPermitted Development Commercial from May 2013Approved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 13 November 2017

Council decision: Prior Approval Required and to Approve with Conditions

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

Proposal

Prior Approval for change of use of part ground floor of premises from Offices (B1a) to Nursery (Use Class D1).

Received
14 September 2017
Ward
Sparkbrook & Balsall Heath East
  1. Received14 Sep
  2. Validated19 Sep
  3. Consult.14 Oct
  4. Target13 Nov
  5. Decided13 Nov

Decided in 55 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Greencoat House 259 Stratford Road Sparkhill Birmingham B11 1QS. Birmingham has handled 2,571 applications of this type. This one was decided in 60 days, 4 days longer than Birmingham's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 29 applications across Sparkbrook & Balsall Heath East. We hold 687 applications in total for the B11 postcode area.

86% of outline applications at Birmingham City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
B11 1QS
Application type
Permitted Development Commercial from May 2013
Scale / size
Small
District
Hall Green

Planning application dates

Date validated
19 September 2017
Consultation expiry
14 October 2017
Consultation end
14 October 2017
Target decision date
13 November 2017
Application expires
13 November 2017

Planning decision

Statutory period
53 days

Additional information

Documents
19

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Article 4 direction: City Wide Hmo
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, tree preservation orders, 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.

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