20 Old Fordrove Sutton Coldfield Birmingham B76 1AQ

2023/08563/PAProposed Lawful Use/DevelopmentApproved

Outline / PiP

Approved on 28 February 2024

Council decision: Section 191 / 192 Permission not Required (Certificate Issued)

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

Proposal

Application for a Lawful Development Certificate for a proposed garage conversion into a habitable room

Received: 21 December 2023
Council: Birmingham City Council
Ward: Sutton Reddicap

ReceivedReceived21 Dec
ValidatedValidated11 Jan
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided28 Feb

Decided in 48 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a garage at 20 Old Fordrove Sutton Coldfield Birmingham B76 1AQ. Birmingham has handled 2,571 applications of this type. This one was decided in 69 days, 13 days longer than Birmingham's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 26 applications across Sutton Reddicap. We hold 1,534 applications in total for the B76 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: B76 1AQ
Application type: Proposed Lawful Use/Development
Scale / size: Small
District: Sutton Coldfield

Planning application dates

Date validated: 11 January 2024
Application expires: 4 March 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period: 53 days

Additional information

Documents: 11

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
Tree Preservation Order: TPO 313
Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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.

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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.

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