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5 Radford Road Selly Oak Birmingham B29 4RB

2025/06064/PAFull PlanningRefused
Full

Refused on 5 February 2026

Council decision: Refuse1 reason for refusal

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

Proposal

Change of use from residential house (Use Class C3) to childrens care home (Use Class C2) for upto two children and conversion of garage to staff office and sleeping facility

Received
27 October 2025
Ward
Weoley & Selly Oak
  1. Received27 Oct
  2. Validated7 Jan
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided5 Feb

Decided in 29 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a garage at 5 Radford Road Selly Oak Birmingham B29 4RB. Birmingham has handled 10,255 applications of this type. This one was decided in 101 days, 6 weeks longer than Birmingham's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 42 applications across Weoley & Selly Oak. 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 proposed use as a children's care home would increase the intensity of use of the existing dwelling with the potential to cause excessive noise and disturbance which would be harmful to the residential amenity of the occupants of the adjacent dwellings. 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.

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
B29 4RB
Application type
Full Planning
Scale / size
Small
District
Northfield

Planning application dates

Date validated
7 January 2026
Application expires
22 December 2025

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.

  • 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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