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York House 37A and 38 Great Charles Street Queensway Birmingham B3 3JY

2023/06664/PAFull PlanningApproved
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Approved on 21 December 2023

Council decision: Approve subject to Conditions

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Proposal

Change of use from cafe/restaurant (Use Class E) and hot food take away (Sui Generis) to an educational facility (Use Class F1) with ancillary cafe/restaurant (Use Class E)

Received
3 October 2023
Ward
Ladywood
  1. Received3 Oct
  2. Validated7 Nov
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided21 Dec

Decided in 44 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at York House 37A and 38 Great Charles Street Queensway Birmingham B3 3JY. Birmingham has handled 10,255 applications of this type. This one was decided in 79 days, 3 weeks longer than Birmingham's typical decision time. The site is in the Colmore Row and Environs conservation area, with 13 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 122 applications across Ladywood. We hold 74 applications in total for the B3 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
B3 3JY
Application type
Full Planning
Scale / size
Small
District
Ladywood

Planning application dates

Date validated
7 November 2023
Application expires
26 December 2023
Permission expires
21 December 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
49 days

Additional information

Documents
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Colmore Row and Environs Conservation Area
  • Listed building: Grade II*: 85 and 87, Cornwall Street B3On or next to this site · +6 more
  • Article 4 direction: City Wide Hmo
  • Brownfield land register: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th & 5th Floors, York House, 38 Great Charles Street, LadywoodRegister site at or near this address · +1 more
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (20)

flood storage areas, 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 and heritage coasts.

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

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