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Former 'The Trees' Public House site Bristol Road Edgbaston Birmingham B5 7TT

2022/06777/PAFull PlanningApproved
Full

Approved on 23 February 2023

Council decision: APPROVE SUBJECT TO CONDITIONS

Proposal

Erection of four linked blocks of 17, 11, 10 and 8 storeys for student accommodation (Sui Generis) (620 bedspaces) (17,055sqm) arranged around a private courtyard, with new landscaping and disabled parking spaces.

Received
1 September 2022
Ward
Edgbaston
  1. Received1 Sep
  2. Validated20 Oct
  3. Consult.10 Feb
  4. Target
  5. Decided23 Feb

Decided in 126 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Former 'The Trees' Public House site Bristol Road Edgbaston Birmingham B5 7TT. Birmingham has handled 10,255 applications of this type. This one was decided in 175 days, 17 weeks longer than Birmingham's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 94 applications across Edgbaston. We hold 312 applications in total for the B5 postcode area.

83% of full 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
B5 7TT
Application type
Full Planning
Scale / size
Medium
District
Edgbaston

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 October 2022
Consultation expiry
10 February 2023
Consultation start
20 October 2022
Consultation end
10 February 2023
Neighbour consultation start
20 October 2022
Application expires
19 January 2023
Permission expires
23 February 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
91 days

Publicity

Site notice start
20 October 2022

Additional information

Documents
81

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)
  • Article 4 direction: City Wide Hmo
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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