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Units 4 & 5 Booth Street Industrial Park Booth Street Smethwick B66 2PQ

DC/14/57336Change of Use (Major)Refused
Discharge / amendments

Refused on 30 October 2014

Council decision: Refuse permissionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Proposed change of use to a banqueting/conference hall with internal parking and new vehicular access, alterations to facade.

Received
22 July 2014
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
2
Ward
Soho & Victoria
Agent
Brooke Smith Planning
  1. Received22 Jul
  2. Validated1 Aug
  3. Consult.28 Aug
  4. Target31 Oct
  5. Decided30 Oct

Decided in 90 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Units 4 & 5 Booth Street Industrial Park Booth Street Smethwick B66 2PQ. Sandwell has handled 457 applications of this type. This one was decided in 100 days, 6 weeks longer than Sandwell's typical decision time. 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 2PQ
Application type
Change of Use (Major)
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
1 August 2014
Consultation expiry
28 August 2014
Consultation start
1 August 2014
Consultation end
28 August 2014
Neighbour consultation start
1 August 2014
Neighbour consultation end
22 August 2014
Last date for comments
28 August 2014
Target decision date
31 October 2014
Application expires
31 October 2014

Applicant and agent

Agent
Brooke Smith Planning
Agent address
The Cloisters 12 George Road Edgbaston Birmingham B15 1NP

Planning decision

Statutory period
91 days

Publicity

Last advertised
6 August 2014
Advertisement expiry
28 August 2014
Site notice start
7 August 2014
Site notice end
28 August 2014

Appeal

Appeal status
Appeal decided
Appeal result
Allowed with Conditions

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-03515366
Documents
16
Constraints
14

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (24)

flood storage areas, conservation 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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