42 Fountain Road, Harborne, Birmingham, B17 8NR
Proposal
Application for a Lawful Development Certificate for an existing use as 7-bed HMO (Sui Generis)
- Received
- 21 August 2026
- Decided
- 6 October 2026 · SECTION 191 / 192 REQUIRED (CERTIFICATE REFUSED)
- Council
- Birmingham City Council
- Ward
- North Edgbaston
- ReceivedSubmitted21 Aug
- ValidatedValidated30 Jun
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided6 Oct
Decided in 98 days (council typically 56)
This is a planning application at 42 Fountain Road,Harborne,Birmingham,B17 8NR. Birmingham has handled 40 applications of this type and approves 65% of them, typically deciding them in 56 days. This one was decided in 46 days, 10 days quicker than Birmingham's median. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 40 applications across North Edgbaston. We hold 749 applications in total for the B17 postcode area.
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Planning constraints
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.
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