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36 Flat 6 Grant Street Edgbaston Birmingham B15 2EH

2026/00227/PAFull PlanningRefused
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Refused on 1 July 2026

Council decision: REFUSE3 reasons for refusal

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Proposal

Retrospective application for change of use from residential house (Use Class C3) to small HMO (Use Class C4)

Received
19 January 2026
Ward
Ladywood
  1. Received19 Jan
  2. Validated19 Jan
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided1 Jul

Decided in 163 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 36 Flat 6 Grant Street Edgbaston Birmingham B15 2EH. Birmingham has handled 10,255 applications of this type. This one was decided in 163 days, 15 weeks longer than Birmingham's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 122 applications across Ladywood. We hold 1,132 applications in total for the B15 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 house of multiple occupation results in the loss of an existing 2 bedroom family dwelling. There is a shortage of such dwellings and an evidenced demand in the City for housing of the size and nature of the application premises. The application has provided insufficient planning justification and has not identified a social need for the proposed HMO that would warrant the loss of a dwelling. As such the application is contrary to Policies PG3, TP27 and TP35 of the Birmingham Development Plan 2017, Policy DM11 of the Development Management in Birmingham Development Plan Document 2021, Houses in Multiple Occupation Supplementary Planning Document April 2022, Birmingham Housing and Economic Development Need Assessment April 2022 and the National Planning Policy Framework 2024.
  2. The house in multiple occupation provides an unsatisfactory living environment for occupiers by reason of inadequate outdoor and indoor amenity space and is contrary to Polices GA1, PG3 and TP26 of the Birmingham Development Plan 2017, Policies DM2 and DM11 of the Development Management in Birmingham Development Plan Document 2021, Houses in Multiple Occupation Supplementary Planning Document 2022, City Note LW-13 of the Birmingham Design Guide 2022 and the National Planning Policy Framework 2024.
  3. The house in multiple occupation results in more than 10% of properties within a 100m radius to be within HMO use, resulting in an overconcentration of HMOs and further harming the area's residential character contrary to Policy DM11 of the Development Management in Birmingham DPD 2022.

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
B15 2EH
Application type
Full Planning
Scale / size
Small
District
Ladywood

Planning application dates

Date validated
19 January 2026
Application expires
16 March 2026

Planning decision

Case officer
Anh Do

Additional information

Documents
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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.

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© 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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