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35 Aston Cross Business Park, 50 Rocky Lane, Aston, Birmingham B6 5RQ.

2025/02529/PAFull PlanningApproved
Full

Approved on 16 January 2026

Council decision: Approve subject to Conditions

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

Proposal

Change of use of the existing building to a data centre (Sui Generis) together with the erection and installation of associated plant and equipment which will includes solar panels; generator compound (with screening), fuel store and bund, transformer station, cooling plant (with screening), turnstile gate in fencing, fencing, new fence gates, pump room, bin store together with associated fencing, landscaping and parking.

Received
5 May 2025
Ward
Nechells
  1. Received5 May
  2. Validated17 Jun
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided16 Jan

Decided in 213 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 35 Aston Cross Business Park, 50 Rocky Lane, Aston, Birmingham B6 5RQ.. Birmingham has handled 10,255 applications of this type. This one was decided in 256 days, 29 weeks longer than Birmingham's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 54 applications across Nechells. We hold 106 applications in total for the B6 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
B6 5RQ
Application type
Full Planning
Scale / size
Small
District
Ladywood

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 June 2025
Application expires
5 August 2025
Permission expires
16 January 2029

Planning decision

Statutory period
49 days

Additional information

Documents
34

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
  • 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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