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113 Onibury Road Handsworth Birmingham B21 8BE

2025/05249/PAFull PlanningRefused
Full

Refused on 3 February 2026

Council decision: Refuse4 reasons for refusal

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

Proposal

Change of use of from residential dwelling house (Use Class C3) to 6-bed HMO (Use Class C4)

Received
17 September 2025
Ward
Holyhead
  1. Received17 Sep
  2. Validated17 Nov
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided3 Feb

Decided in 78 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 113 Onibury Road Handsworth Birmingham B21 8BE. Birmingham has handled 10,255 applications of this type. This one was decided in 139 days, 12 weeks longer than Birmingham's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 13 applications across Holyhead. We hold 382 applications in total for the B21 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 of the property to a HMO (Use Class C4) would result in the loss of an existing family dwelling house (Use Class C3) of which there is an undersupply and an evidenced demand for within the city. Insufficient justification has been provided to demonstrate that the need for a care home in this location, outweighs the important contribution this dwelling makes to the Council's objectives, strategies and policies relating to the provision of family housing. As such, the application conflicts with Policy TP35 of the Birmingham Development Plan 2017, Policy DM12 of the Development Management in Birmingham DPD 2021 and the National Planning Policy Framework.
  2. The proposed use of the applicaion site as a HMO would be an over-intensive form of development with the potential to cause excessive noise and disturbance through increased comings and goings, to the detriment of nearby residential amenity. As such, the proposal conflicts with Policies DM2 and DM12 of the Development Management in Birmingham DPD 2021, Birmingham Design Guide 2023 and the National Planning Policy Framework.
  3. The scheme would present and over intensive form of development, with the submitted floor plans showing inadequate room sizes and failing to evidence floor to ceiling heights which could result in substandard accommodation, to the detriment of future occupiers of the site. As such, the proposal would be contrary to Policy PG3 of the Birmingham Development Plan 2017, Policy DM2 and DM10 of the Development Management in Birmingham DPD 2021, City Note LW-11 Birmingham Design Guide SPD 2022 and the National Planning Policy Framework.
  4. The scheme proposes an inadequate level of natural light and outlook for future occupiers, when reviewing the shared communal space proposed, which would result to the detriment of residential amenity for future occupiers of the site. As such, the proposal would be contrary to Policy PG3 of the Birmingham Development Plan 2017, Policy DM2 and DM10 of the Development Management in Birmingham DPD 2021, City Note LW-11 Birmingham Design Guide SPD 2022 and the National Planning Policy Framework.

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
B21 8BE
Application type
Full Planning
Scale / size
Small
District
Perry Barr

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 November 2025
Application expires
12 November 2025

Additional information

Documents
12

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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