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155-157 Muntz Street Bordesley Green Birmingham B10 9SJ

2025/07187/PAFull PlanningRefused
Full

Refused on 22 October 2026

Council decision: REFUSE2 reasons for refusal

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

Proposal

Change of use from mechanical garage to snooker club

Received
22 December 2025
Ward
Small Heath
  1. Received22 Dec
  2. Validated22 Dec
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided22 Oct

Decided in 304 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a garage at 155-157 Muntz Street Bordesley Green Birmingham B10 9SJ. Birmingham has handled 10,255 applications of this type. This one was decided in 304 days, 35 weeks longer than Birmingham's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 23 applications across Small Heath. We hold 85 applications in total for the B10 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 development would result in the unjustified loss of an existing employment- generating use. The site is identified as Employment Land under Policy TP20 of the Birmingham Development Plan, where employment uses are supported. Whilst additional information has been submitted in support of the application, insufficient evidence has been provided to demonstrate that the existing use is no longer viable or that there is no reasonable prospect of the site continuing in employment use. Furthermore, no marketing evidence has been submitted to demonstrate a lack of demand for continued employment use. The proposal is therefore contrary to Policy TP20 of the Birmingham Development Plan and the Loss of Industrial Land to Alternative Uses SPD.
  2. The proposed change of use from a vehicle repair and MOT testing station (Use Class Sui Generis) to a snooker club (Use Class E(d)) would introduce an evening leisure use in close proximity to neighbouring residential properties. By reason of the increased customer activity, arrivals and departures, associated comings and goings, and noise and disturbance during the evening period, the proposal would result in unacceptable harm to the living conditions of nearby occupiers. The proposal is therefore contrary to Policy PG3 of the Birmingham Development Plan and Policy DM2 of the Development Management in Birmingham DPD.

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
B10 9SJ
Application type
Full Planning
Scale / size
Small
District
Yardley

Planning application dates

Date validated
22 December 2025
Application expires
16 February 2026

Planning decision

Case officer
Vajid Mahmood

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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