Unit 3 and 4 First Floor Front 19 - 23 Pitsford Street Birmingham B18 6LJ
Refused on 5 January 2026
Council decision: Prior Approval Required and to Refuse2 reasons for refusal
Proposal
Application to determine if prior approval is required for a proposed change of use from Commercial, Business & Service (Use Class E) to 2 no.one bed self-contained residential flats at first floor (Use Class C3).
- Received
- 11 November 2025
- Council
- Birmingham City Council
- Ward
- Soho & Jewellery Quarter
- ReceivedReceived11 Nov
- ValidatedValidated12 Nov
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided5 Jan
Decided in 54 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an outline application for a change of use at Unit 3 and 4 First Floor Front 19 - 23 Pitsford Street Birmingham B18 6LJ. Birmingham has handled 2,571 applications of this type. This one was decided in 55 days. The site is in the Jewellery Quarter conservation area, with 6 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 77 applications across Soho & Jewellery Quarter. We hold 94 applications in total for the B18 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
- The application has failed to demonstrate that the building fell within one or more of the classes specificed in sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph MA.1 for a continuous period of at least 2 years prior to the date of the application for prior approval. Therefore, the proposal would be contrary to the provisions of Class MA in Part 3 of Schedule 2 of The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) (Amendment) Order 2021.
- Insufficient information has been submitted to demonstrate that there is sufficient head space in the bedrooms of apartments 1 and 2 to provide an adequate living environment and meet the Nationally Described Space Standards. As such, the proposal would be contrary to the provisions of Schedule 2, Part 3, Class MA of The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended).
From the council's decision notice.
Application details
- Postcode
- B18 6LJ
- Application type
- Permitted Development Commercial from May 2013
- Scale / size
- Small
- District
- Ladywood
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 12 November 2025
- Application expires
- 6 January 2026
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 55 days
Additional information
- Documents
- 7
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Jewellery Quarter Conservation Area
- Article 4 direction: City Wide Hmo
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)
flood storage 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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© 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.
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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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