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Ground Floor 142 High Street Smethwick B66 3AP

DC/10/52059Change of UseApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 27 May 2010

Council decision: Grant Permission Subject to ConditionsPlanning committee

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

Proposal

Proposed private hire booking office on ground floor.

Received
16 April 2010
Decision level
Planning committee
Public comments
1
Ward
Smethwick
  1. Received16 Apr
  2. Validated17 Apr
  3. Consult.13 May
  4. Target12 Jun
  5. Decided27 May

Decided in 40 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Ground Floor 142 High Street Smethwick B66 3AP. Sandwell has handled 457 applications of this type. This one was decided in 41 days, 2 weeks quicker 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 3AP
Application type
Change of Use
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 April 2010
Consultation expiry
13 May 2010
Consultation start
22 April 2010
Consultation end
13 May 2010
Neighbour consultation start
22 April 2010
Neighbour consultation end
13 May 2010
Last date for comments
13 May 2010
Target decision date
12 June 2010
Committee meeting
26 May 2010
Application expires
12 June 2010
Permission expires
27 May 2015

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
22 April 2010
Site notice end
13 May 2010

Additional information

Documents
5
Constraints
13

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 Town Centre High Street
  • 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

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© 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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