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66 - 68 High Street Smethwick West Midlands B66 1DS

DC/07/48276Change of UseApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 26 September 2007

Council decision: Grant Permission with external materialsPlanning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Proposed change of use (at ground floor) of former bank to provide funeral directors premises, with new shop front, entrance and external ramps.

Received
24 July 2007
Decision level
Planning committee
Public comments
4
Ward
Smethwick
  1. Received24 Jul
  2. Validated25 Jul
  3. Consult.13 Sep
  4. Target19 Sep
  5. Decided26 Sep

Decided in 63 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 66 - 68 High Street Smethwick West Midlands B66 1DS. Sandwell has handled 457 applications of this type. This one was decided in 64 days, 8 days longer than Sandwell's typical decision time. The site is in the Smethwick Town Centre conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 32 applications across Smethwick. 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 1DS
Application type
Change of Use
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
25 July 2007
Consultation expiry
13 September 2007
Consultation start
3 August 2007
Consultation end
13 September 2007
Neighbour consultation start
28 September 2007
Neighbour consultation end
24 August 2007
Last date for comments
13 September 2007
Target decision date
19 September 2007
Committee meeting
26 September 2007
Decision issued
1 October 2007
Application expires
19 September 2007

Applicant and agent

Agent address
The Old School House 1 The Uplands Smethwick B67 6EG

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
3 August 2007
Site notice end
24 August 2007

Additional information

Documents
15
Constraints
12

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Smethwick Town Centre High Street
  • Brownfield land register: 80 - 82 High Street SmethwickRegister site at or near this address
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)

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 and heritage coasts.

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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© 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.

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Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Sandwell

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