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Advanced Builders 23 Hamstead Road Birmingham B19 1BX

2025/07192/PAFull PlanningApproved
Full

Approved on 27 February 2026

Council decision: Approve subject to Conditions

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

Proposal

Change of use of the existing office building to a women's and children's refuge centre (Sui Generis), including minor internal and external alterations.

Received
22 December 2025
Ward
Lozells
  1. Received22 Dec
  2. Validated19 Jan
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided27 Feb

Decided in 39 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Advanced Builders 23 Hamstead Road Birmingham B19 1BX. Birmingham has handled 10,255 applications of this type. This one was decided in 67 days, 11 days longer than Birmingham's typical decision time. The site is in the Lozells and Soho Hill conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 13 applications across Lozells. We hold 77 applications in total for the B19 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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Application details

Postcode
B19 1BX
Application type
Full Planning
Scale / size
Small
District
Perry Barr

Planning application dates

Date validated
19 January 2026
Application expires
16 February 2026
Permission expires
27 February 2029

Planning decision

Statutory period
28 days

Additional information

Documents
13

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Conservation area: Lozells and Soho Hill Conservation Area
  • Article 4 direction: City Wide Hmo
  • Heritage at Risk Register: Lozells and Soho Hill
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (21)

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, 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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