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720 Shirley Road Hall Green Birmingham B28 9LF

2025/06953/PAFull PlanningRefused
Full

Refused on 2 April 2026

Council decision: REFUSE4 reasons for refusal

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

Proposal

Change of use from dwellinghouse (Use Class C3) to 8-bed HMO (Sui Generis) to provide assisted-living accommodation

Received
10 December 2025
Ward
Hall Green North
  1. Received10 Dec
  2. Validated10 Dec
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided2 Apr

Decided in 113 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 720 Shirley Road Hall Green Birmingham B28 9LF. Birmingham has handled 10,255 applications of this type. This one was decided in 113 days, 8 weeks longer than Birmingham's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 67 applications across Hall Green North. We hold 259 applications in total for the B28 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 change of use of the property would result in the loss of a four bedroom family dwelling house, and insufficient justification has been provided to demonstrate that the need for a House in Multiple Occupation (HMO) in this location outweighs the important contribution this dwelling makes to the Council's objectives, strategies and policies relating to housing provision. As such, the application conflicts with Policy TP35 of the Birmingham Development Plan 2017, Policy DM11 of the Development Management in Birmingham DPD 2021 and the National Planning Policy Framework 2025.
  2. The occupation of the property as an HMO by up to eight people would result in a demonstrable increase in the numbers of comings and goings from the site and a greater level of noise and disturbance in comparison to the existing use as a family dwelling house. The proposed HMO would not, therefore, be appropriate to this location as it would result in unacceptable adverse impacts on the amenity of neighbouring occupiers, contrary to Policies DM2, DM6 and DM11 of the Development Management in Birmingham DPD 2021 and the National Planning Policy Framework 2025.
  3. The development would provide poor quality living accommodation for the occupiers by virtue of insufficient internal communal space and floor space for bedroom 5. As such the scheme is contrary to the Birmingham Design Guide SPD 2022, Policy PG3 of the Birmingham Development Plan 2017, Policies DM2 and DM11 of the Development Management in Birmingham DPD 2021 and the National Planning Policy Framework 2025.
  4. The development would result in additional on-street parking, which would have a detrimental impact on highway and pedestrian safety as this section of Shirley Road is narrow with limited parking availability. 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
B28 9LF
Application type
Full Planning
Scale / size
Small
District
Hall Green & Moseley

Planning application dates

Date validated
10 December 2025
Application expires
4 February 2026

Applicant and agent

Applicant company

Encouraging Lives CIC

Company number 13808050

Status
Active
Type
Community interest company
Incorporated
20 Dec 2021 (4 years old)
Nature of business
Other accommodation; Residential care activities for learning difficulties, mental health and substance abuse; Other social work activities without accommodation
Registered office
Birmingham
View on Companies House

Company information from Companies House.

Planning decision

Case officer
Mohammed Abdellah

Additional information

Documents
2

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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