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56 St Pauls Square Birmingham B3 1QS

2025/02421/PAFull PlanningApproved
Full

Approved on 6 August 2025

Council decision: Approve subject to Conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use from offices (Use Class E) to hotel (Use Class C1)

Received
29 April 2025
Ward
Soho & Jewellery Quarter
  1. Received29 Apr
  2. Validated5 Jun
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided6 Aug

Decided in 62 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 56 St Pauls Square Birmingham B3 1QS. Birmingham has handled 10,255 applications of this type. This one was decided in 99 days, 6 weeks longer than Birmingham's typical decision time. The site is in the Jewellery Quarter conservation area, with 8 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 77 applications across Soho & Jewellery Quarter. 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 1QS
Application type
Full Planning
Scale / size
Small
District
Ladywood

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 June 2025
Application expires
24 June 2025
Permission expires
6 August 2028

Planning decision

Statutory period
19 days

Additional information

Documents
22

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Jewellery Quarter Conservation Area
  • Listed building: Grade II: Cogent WorksOn this site · +1 more
  • Article 4 direction: City Wide Hmo
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (21)

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, 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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© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

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Associated applications

  1. 2025
    29 Apr

    Change of use from offices (Use Class E) to hotel (Use Class C1)

    This applicationApprovedFull2025/02421/PA
  2. 2025
    29 Apr

    Listed Building consent for internal alterations, including modifications to existing door and window…

    ApprovedListed building consentFiled alongside2025/02428/PA

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