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107 - 108 Rolfe Street Smethwick West Midlands B66 2BD

DC/05/44385Change of UseRefused
Discharge / amendments

Refused on 6 June 2005

Council decision: Refuse permissionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of vacant land to car wash facilities and associated office unit, (resubmission of refused application DC/04/43769).

Received
11 April 2005
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Soho & Victoria
  1. Received11 Apr
  2. Validated11 Apr
  3. Consult.7 Jun
  4. Target6 Jun
  5. Decided6 Jun

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 107 - 108 Rolfe Street Smethwick West Midlands B66 2BD. Sandwell has handled 457 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days. The site is in the Smethwick Summit Galton Valley conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 24 applications across Soho & Victoria. We hold 775 applications in total for the B66 postcode area.

88% of amendment applications at Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
B66 2BD
Application type
Change of Use
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 April 2005
Consultation expiry
7 June 2005
Consultation start
24 May 2005
Consultation end
7 June 2005
Neighbour consultation start
19 April 2005
Last date for comments
14 June 2005
Target decision date
6 June 2005
Application expires
6 June 2005

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Maurice Road Kings Heath Birmingham B14 6DL

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
22 April 2005
Advertisement expiry
13 May 2005
Site notice start
20 April 2005
Site notice end
11 May 2005

Additional information

Documents
10
Constraints
9

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Smethwick Summit Galton Valley
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, 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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© 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: Sandwell

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