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14 Pentos Drive Birmingham B11 3TA

2025/06094/PAFull PlanningRefused
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Refused on 20 April 2026

Council decision: REFUSE4 reasons for refusal

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

Proposal

Change of use from industrial unit (Use Class B2) to provide indoor sport, recreation and fitness and indoor pedal tennis facility (Use Class E)

Received
29 October 2025
Ward
Sparkhill
  1. Received29 Oct
  2. Validated29 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided20 Apr

Decided in 173 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 14 Pentos Drive Birmingham B11 3TA. Birmingham has handled 10,255 applications of this type. This one was decided in 173 days, 17 weeks longer than Birmingham's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 28 applications across Sparkhill. We hold 687 applications in total for the B11 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 proposal would result in the loss of employment use within an established industrial estate. Insufficient evidence has been provided to demonstrate that it has been actively marketed for a full two-year period or that it is no longer attractive or viable for employment purposes. The development therefore fails to satisfy the requirements of Policy TP20 of the Birmingham Development Plan.
  2. The proposed leisure use is a main town centre use as defined in Annex 2 of the National Planning Policy Framework. No sequential test has been submitted to demonstrate that suitable sites within centres or edge-of-centre locations have been considered for the proposed use before selecting this out-of-centre industrial location. The proposal therefore conflicts with Policy TP21 of the Birmingham Development Plan and Paragraph 91 of the National Planning Policy Framework 2025.
  3. The proposed leisure use, involving indoor padel tennis courts, would introduce a noise-generating activity within close proximity of residential properties along Percy Road. No acoustic assessment or mitigation strategy has been submitted to demonstrate that noise from impact play, participant activity, and associated comings and goings can be adequately controlled in order to minimize potentially adverse impacts on the amenity of nearby occupiers. The proposal therefore fails to comply with Policies DM2 and DM6 of the Development Management in Birmingham DPD 2021 and the National Planning Policy Framework 2025.
  4. The development fails to provide sufficient on-site parking for the proposed use, which would potentially have a detrimental impact on highway and pedestrian safety resulting from increased on- street parking. The proposal is therefore contrary to Policy PG3 of the Birmingham Development Plan 2017, Policies DM14 and DM15 of the Development Management in Birmingham Development Plan Document 2021, the Birmingham Parking SPD 2021 and the National Planning Policy Framework 2025.

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
B11 3TA
Application type
Full Planning
Scale / size
Small
District
Hall Green & Moseley

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 October 2025
Application expires
24 December 2025

Applicant and agent

Applicant company

Onyx Padel Ltd

Company number 16669529

Status
Active
Type
Private limited company
Incorporated
24 Aug 2025 (1 year old)
Nature of business
Other sports activities
Registered office
Coventry
View on Companies House

Company information from Companies House.

Planning decision

Case officer
Mohammed Abdellah
Statutory period
7 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.

  • Flood zone 2: Medium probability (rivers and sea)
  • Article 4 direction: City Wide Hmo
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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