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5 Key Hill Drive Birmingham B18 5NY

2025/07230/PAPermitted Development Commercial from May 2013Refused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 13 February 2026

Council decision: Prior Approval Required and to Refuse

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application to determine if prior approval is required for a proposed change of use from Commercial, Business & Service (Use Class E) to 2 no. flats (Use Class C3).

Received
22 December 2025
Ward
Soho & Jewellery Quarter
  1. Received22 Dec
  2. Validated23 Dec
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided13 Feb

Decided in 52 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 5 Key Hill Drive Birmingham B18 5NY. Birmingham has handled 2,571 applications of this type. This one was decided in 53 days, 3 days quicker than Birmingham's typical decision time. The site is in the Jewellery Quarter conservation area, with 12 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 77 applications across Soho & Jewellery Quarter. We hold 94 applications in total for the B18 postcode area.

86% of outline 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
B18 5NY
Application type
Permitted Development Commercial from May 2013
Scale / size
Small
District
Ladywood

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 December 2025
Application expires
16 February 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Additional information

Documents
17

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Jewellery Quarter Conservation Area
  • Article 4 direction: City Wide Hmo
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)

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, 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

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© 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.

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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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