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807 Pershore Road Selly Park Birmingham B29 7LR

2025/04574/PAFull PlanningRefused
Full

Refused on 17 November 2025

Council decision: Refuse4 reasons for refusal

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

Proposal

Retention of change of use from residential care home (Use Class C2) to 14 bed HMO (Sui Generis)

Received
15 August 2025
Ward
Bournbrook & Selly Park
  1. Received15 Aug
  2. Validated6 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided17 Nov

Decided in 42 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 807 Pershore Road Selly Park Birmingham B29 7LR. Birmingham has handled 10,255 applications of this type. This one was decided in 94 days, 5 weeks longer than Birmingham's typical decision time. The site is in the Selly Park conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 105 applications across Bournbrook & Selly Park. We hold 1,066 applications in total for the B29 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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Why it was refused

  1. The change of use to a 14 bedroom House in Multiple Occupation (Sui Generis) would contribute to an overconcentration of such uses in the area, creating an unbalanced community and loss of amenity to the area and adjacent premises. As such, the proposed use would be contrary to Policy PG3 and TP27 of the Birmingham Development Plan (2017), Policy DM11 of the Development Management in Birmingham Development Plan Document, The Wider Selly Oak Supplementary Planning Document (2015) and the National Planning Policy Framework.
  2. The use of the building as a 14 bedroom HMO would adversely affect the amenities of occupiers of dwellings in the vicinity by reason of noise and general disturbance. As such the development would be contrary to Policies PG3 and T27 of the Birmingham Development Plan 2017, Policies DM2 and DM11 of the Development Management in Birmingham DPD, Birmingham Design Guide (2022) and the National Planning Policy Framework.
  3. The accommodation provided in relation to the Bedroom 3 provides an insufficient internal layout which would result in a cramped and overcrowded living environment which would be unduly harmful to the amenity levels of future occupiers. This is contrary to Policies PG3 and T27 of the Birmingham Development Plan 2017, Policies DM2 and DM11 of the Development Management in Birmingham DPD, Birmingham Design Guide (2022) and the National Planning Policy Framework.
  4. The car parking facilities proposed are inadequate and would lead to additional parking in nearby roads, to the detriment of pedestrian and highway safety. As such it would be contrary to Policies PG3 and TP44 of the Birmingham Development Plan 2017 and the National Planning Policy Framework.

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
B29 7LR
Application type
Full Planning
Scale / size
Small
District
Selly Oak

Planning application dates

Date validated
6 October 2025
Application expires
10 October 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
4 days

Appeal history

6002364
Dismissed
Type: Planning AppealProcedure: Written RepresentationsDecision: 30 June 2026Dev Type: Change of useReason: refused

Additional information

Documents
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Conservation area: Selly Park Conservation Area
  • Article 4 direction: City Wide Hmo+2 more
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage 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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