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Unit 80 H2 Rolfe Street Smethwick B66 2AR

DC/10/51767Change of UseApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 2 March 2010

Council decision: Grant Conditional Temporary PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Proposed change of use from B2 (general industrial) to D1 - (education and training centre), temporary use for 5 years.

Received
22 January 2010
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Soho & Victoria
  1. Received22 Jan
  2. Validated30 Jan
  3. Consult.24 Feb
  4. Target27 Mar
  5. Decided2 Mar

Decided in 31 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Unit 80 H2 Rolfe Street Smethwick B66 2AR. Sandwell has handled 457 applications of this type. This one was decided in 39 days, 2 weeks quicker than Sandwell's typical decision time. The site is in the Smethwick Summit Galton Valley conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. 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 2AR
Application type
Change of Use
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 January 2010
Consultation expiry
24 February 2010
Last date for comments
24 February 2010
Target decision date
27 March 2010
Application expires
27 March 2010
Permission expires
2 March 2015

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
3 February 2010
Site notice end
24 February 2010

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
3
Constraints
12

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Conservation area: Smethwick Summit Galton Valley
  • Brownfield land register: North Smethwick Canalside, 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.

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.

Source: Sandwell

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