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79 Beauchamp Avenue Handsworth Birmingham B20 1DS

2024/04727/PAFull PlanningRefused
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Refused on 12 February 2025

Council decision: REFUSE

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of a dwelling (Class C3a) to a children's home for up to four children, a manager and four carers (Class C2)

Received
19 July 2024
Ward
Handsworth Wood
  1. Received19 Jul
  2. Validated28 Aug
  3. Consult.25 Sep
  4. Target
  5. Decided12 Feb

Decided in 168 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 79 Beauchamp Avenue Handsworth Birmingham B20 1DS. Birmingham has handled 10,255 applications of this type. This one was decided in 208 days, 22 weeks longer than Birmingham's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 41 applications across Handsworth Wood. We hold 141 applications in total for the B20 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
B20 1DS
Application type
Full Planning
Scale / size
Small
District
Perry Barr

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 August 2024
Consultation expiry
25 September 2024
Consultation start
28 August 2024
Consultation end
25 September 2024
Neighbour consultation start
28 August 2024
Application expires
13 September 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period
16 days

Publicity

Site notice start
28 August 2024

Additional information

Documents
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Article 4 direction: City Wide Hmo
  • Green belt: BirminghamNext to the site
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)

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