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281 Thimble Mill Lane Birmingham B7 5HJ

2025/07269/PAProposed Lawful Use/DevelopmentRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 17 March 2026

Council decision: Section 191 / 192 Required (Certificate Refused)1 reason for refusal

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

Proposal

Application for a Lawful Development Certificate for a proposed change of use from a dwellinghouse (Use Class C3) to a small-scale care home (Use Class C2) for either two children (aged 12-17 years) or two adults (aged between 18 and 65 years), supported by carers.

Received
25 December 2025
Ward
Nechells
  1. Received25 Dec
  2. Validated4 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided17 Mar

Decided in 41 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 281 Thimble Mill Lane Birmingham B7 5HJ. Birmingham has handled 2,571 applications of this type. This one was decided in 82 days, 4 weeks longer than Birmingham's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 54 applications across Nechells. We hold 57 applications in total for the B7 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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Why it was refused

  1. The evidence submitted by the applicant is not sufficiently precise and unambiguous to demonstrate on balance of probability that the proposed use of the property as a children's and adults care home (Use Class C2) is not materially different to the use of the property as a single dwellinghouse (Use Class C3). The proposed change of use from a dwellinghouse (Use Class C3) to children's and adults care home (Use Class C2) would constitute a material change of use. There is no permitted change between these use classes under the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended) and as such planning permission would be required for the proposed change of use from a dwellinghouse (Use Class C3) to a children's and adults care home (Use Class C2).

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
B7 5HJ
Application type
Proposed Lawful Use/Development
Scale / size
Small
District
Ladywood

Planning application dates

Date validated
4 February 2026
Application expires
19 February 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
15 days

Additional information

Documents
3

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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