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20 St. Mary & St. John Presbytery Gravelly Hill North Erdington Birmingham B23 6BQ

2025/07210/PAFull PlanningRefused
Full

Refused on 13 May 2026

Council decision: Refuse1 reason for refusal

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

Proposal

Change of use from dwelling house to meeting space for the church, parish and local community

Received
23 December 2025
Ward
Gravelly Hill
  1. Received23 Dec
  2. Validated10 Mar
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided13 May

Decided in 64 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 20 St. Mary & St. John Presbytery Gravelly Hill North Erdington Birmingham B23 6BQ. Birmingham has handled 10,255 applications of this type. This one was decided in 141 days, 12 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 Gravelly Hill. We hold 143 applications in total for the B23 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 applicant has failed to submit a Transport Assessment to satisfactorily demonstrate that the proposed change of use would not result in a detrimental impact on the safe and efficient operation of the highway network. In the absence of such information, the Local Planning Authority is unable to fully assess the likely traffic generation, access arrangements, and associated impacts of the development. As such, it cannot be concluded that the proposal would not prejudice highway and public safety. As such it would be contrary to Policies PG3 and TP44 of the Birmingham Development Plan 2017, Policies DM14 and DM15 of the Development Management in Birmingham (DPD) and the National Planning Policy Framework.

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
B23 6BQ
Application type
Full Planning
Scale / size
Small
District
Erdington

Planning application dates

Date validated
10 March 2026
Application expires
17 February 2026

Additional information

Documents
4

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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