Heartlands Social Club 62 Aston Church Road Nechells Birmingham B7 5RX

1. 1.The proposed development would reduce the level of employment land for which there is an identified significant shortfall of in the city and would lose the opportunity to provide an additional future employment use. This would undermine the functional allocation of the designated wider core employment area which the application property is located within. For this reason, the proposed development conflicts with policies PG3 (Place making) and TP19 (Core employment areas) of the adopted Birmingham Development Plan, Loss of Industrial Land to Alternative Uses adopted Supplementary Planning Document and the National Planning Policy Framework.
2. 2.The applicant has failed to demonstrate that there are no other sequentially preferable sites for the proposed office use within existing designated Local Centres in the city. As such, the applicant has failed to demonstrate why the proposed office use cannot be accommodated within an existing Local Centre elsewhere in the city. Consequently, the proposed development would result in the establishment of an office use in an out of Centre location to the detriment of the vitality and viability of existing designated Local Centres in the city. As a consequence, the proposal would erode the viability of such facilities. As such, the proposed development would conflict with policies PG3 (Place making) and TP21 (The network and hierarchy of centres) of the adopted Birmingham Development Plan and the National Planning Policy Framework.
3. 3.The proposal by virtue of siting, scale, massing, appearance and design would fail to reflect the existing character of the surrounding commercial area and would be an incongruous addition to the street scene. As such, the proposal would be contrary to Policy PG3 of the Birmingham Development Plan 2017, Design Principle 14 and City Note LW-7 of the Birmingham Design Guide (2022) and the National Planning Policy Framework 2024).

From the council's decision notice.

Postcode

B7 5RX

Application type

Full Planning

Scale / size

Small

District

Ladywood

Date validated

19 December 2025

Application expires

13 February 2026

Case officer

Harjap Rajwanshi

Documents

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