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4 Northfield Road Harborne Birmingham B17 0SS

2023/00368/PAFull PlanningApproved
Full

Approved on 26 April 2023

Council decision: Approve subject to Conditions

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

Proposal

Change of use from hot food takeaway (Sui-Generis) to restaurant (Use Class E)

Received
19 January 2023
Ward
Harborne
  1. Received19 Jan
  2. Validated3 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided26 Apr

Decided in 82 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 4 Northfield Road Harborne Birmingham B17 0SS. Birmingham has handled 10,255 applications of this type. This one was decided in 97 days, 6 weeks longer than Birmingham's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 101 applications across Harborne. We hold 769 applications in total for the B17 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
B17 0SS
Application type
Full Planning
Scale / size
Small
District
Edgbaston

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 February 2023
Application expires
16 March 2023
Permission expires
26 April 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
41 days

Additional information

Documents
5

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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