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171 Rolfe Street Smethwick B66 2AU

DC/11/53243Full ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 6 June 2011

Council decision: Grant PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Retention of air conditioning units.

Received
1 April 2011
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Soho & Victoria
  1. Received1 Apr
  2. Validated4 May
  3. Consult.30 May
  4. Target29 Jun
  5. Decided6 Jun

Decided in 33 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at 171 Rolfe Street Smethwick B66 2AU. Sandwell has handled 2,543 applications of this type. This one was decided in 66 days, 10 days longer than Sandwell's typical decision time. The site is in the Smethwick Summit Galton Valley conservation area. There has been 1 other application 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.

87% of full 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 2AU
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
4 May 2011
Consultation expiry
6 June 2011
Consultation start
16 May 2011
Consultation end
30 May 2011
Last date for comments
6 June 2011
Target decision date
29 June 2011
Application expires
29 June 2011
Permission expires
6 June 2014

Applicant and agent

Agent address
76 Poplar Avenue Edgbaston Birmingham B17 8ES

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
16 May 2011
Site notice end
6 June 2011

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
6
Constraints
10

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
  • 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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