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4 Hatfield Close Birmingham B23 5YL

2025/07301/PAProposed Lawful Use/DevelopmentApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 13 May 2026

Council decision: SECTION 191 / 192 PERMISSION NOT REQUIRED (CERTIFICATE ISSUED)

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

Proposal

Application for a lawful development certificate for proposed garage conversion to habitable room.

Received
31 December 2025
Ward
Perry Common
  1. Received31 Dec
  2. Validated26 Mar
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided13 May

Decided in 48 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a garage at 4 Hatfield Close Birmingham B23 5YL. Birmingham has handled 2,571 applications of this type. This one was decided in 133 days, 11 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 Perry Common. We hold 143 applications in total for the B23 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
B23 5YL
Application type
Proposed Lawful Use/Development
Scale / size
Small
District
Erdington

Planning application dates

Date validated
26 March 2026
Application expires
25 February 2026

Planning decision

Case officer
Philip Whittaker
Statutory period
21 days

Additional information

Documents
2

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
  • Tree Preservation Order: TPO 320
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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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