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39 Upper Grosvenor Road Handsworth Birmingham B20 3SA

2025/05899/PAProposed Lawful Use/DevelopmentRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 5 June 2026

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

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

Proposal

Application for a Lawful Development Certificate for the proposed change of use from a residential dwellinghouse (use class C3a) to a residential household where four residents living together as a single household and receiving care (comprising up to three residents and one live-in carer) (use class C3b).

Received
20 October 2025
Ward
Birchfield
  1. Received20 Oct
  2. Validated20 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided5 Jun

Decided in 228 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 39 Upper Grosvenor Road Handsworth Birmingham B20 3SA. Birmingham has handled 2,571 applications of this type. This one was decided in 228 days, 25 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 Birchfield. We hold 141 applications in total for the B20 postcode area.

86% of outline 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 submitted information has failed to demonstrate that the residents would live together as a single household and as such the proposed use of the property would not fall within Use Class C3(b) of The Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1987 (as amended).

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
B20 3SA
Application type
Proposed Lawful Use/Development
Scale / size
Small
District
Perry Barr

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 October 2025
Application expires
15 December 2025

Applicant and agent

Applicant company

Abacus Housing Limited

Company number 09712392

Status
Active
Type
Private limited company
Incorporated
31 Jul 2015 (11 years old)
Nature of business
Other accommodation; Buying and selling of own real estate
Registered office
Solihull
View on Companies House

Company information from Companies House.

Planning decision

Case officer
Harjap Rajwanshi
Statutory period
33 days

Additional information

Documents
9

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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