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35-37 Birchfield Road Birmingham B19 1SU

2025/05600/PAExisting Lawful Use/DevelopmentRefused
Lawful development certificate

Refused on 14 September 2026

Council decision: SECTION 191 / 192 REQUIRED (CERTIFICATE REFUSED)1 reason for refusal

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Proposal

Application for a Lawful Development Certificate for an existing use as use Class E in excess of 10 years

Received
3 October 2025
Ward
Aston
  1. Received3 Oct
  2. Validated15 Dec
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided14 Sep

Decided in 273 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 35-37 Birchfield Road Birmingham B19 1SU. Birmingham has handled 632 applications of this type. This one was decided in 346 days, 41 weeks longer than Birmingham's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 45 applications across Aston. We hold 77 applications in total for the B19 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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Why it was refused

  1. The evidence submitted in respect of the existing use of the premises at 35A Birchfield Road, Birmingham, B19 1SU, is not sufficiently precise and unambiguous to demonstrate on the balance of probability that the nature, scale and manner of the processes undertaken at the premises fall within Use Class E(c) (iii). As such a Certificate of Lawfulness for the use cannot be granted pursuant to Section 191 of the Town and County Planning Act 1990.

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
B19 1SU
Application type
Existing Lawful Use/Development
Scale / size
Small
District
Perry Barr

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 December 2025
Application expires
9 February 2026

Planning decision

Case officer
Abigail Honnor
Statutory period
55 days

Additional information

Documents
2

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.

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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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Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2026
    23 Oct

    Erection of new garage unit

    RefusedFull Planning2025/05996/PA

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