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64 Duncroft Road Birmingham B26 2JA

2025/06493/PAProposed Lawful Use/DevelopmentRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 8 January 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 proposed rear outbuilding

Received
17 November 2025
Ward
Yardley East
  1. Received17 Nov
  2. Validated11 Dec
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided8 Jan

Decided in 28 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for an outbuilding at 64 Duncroft Road Birmingham B26 2JA. Birmingham has handled 2,571 applications of this type. This one was decided in 52 days, 4 days quicker than Birmingham's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 31 applications across Yardley East. We hold 961 applications in total for the B26 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 proposed detached outbuilding would be situated within 2 metres of the boundary of the curtilage of the dwellinghouse and would be more than 2.5 metres in height. As such, the proposal would be contrary to Schedule 2, Part 1, Class E (e) (ii) of The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended).

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
B26 2JA
Application type
Proposed Lawful Use/Development
Scale / size
Small
District
Yardley

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 December 2025
Application expires
12 January 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
32 days

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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