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33 Sefton Road Edgbaston Birmingham B16 9DR

2024/07431/PAExisting Lawful Use/DevelopmentApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 20 February 2025

Council decision: SECTION 191 / 192 PERMISSION NOT REQUIRED (CERTIFICATE ISSUED)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application for a Lawful Development Certificate for the existing use as a 5-bed HMO (Use Class C4)

Received
22 November 2024
Ward
Ladywood
  1. Received22 Nov
  2. Validated19 Feb
  3. Consult.3 Feb
  4. Target
  5. Decided20 Feb

Decided in 1 day (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 33 Sefton Road Edgbaston Birmingham B16 9DR. Birmingham has handled 632 applications of this type. This one was decided in 90 days, 5 weeks longer than Birmingham's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 122 applications across Ladywood. We hold 91 applications in total for the B16 postcode area.

81% of amendment 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
B16 9DR
Application type
Existing Lawful Use/Development
Scale / size
Small
District
Edgbaston, Ladywood

Planning application dates

Date validated
19 February 2025
Consultation expiry
3 February 2025
Consultation start
9 January 2025
Consultation end
3 February 2025
Neighbour consultation start
9 January 2025
Application expires
3 March 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
12 days

Publicity

Site notice start
9 January 2025

Additional information

Documents
17

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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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