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171 & 72 Rolfe Street Smethwick B66 2AU

DC/14/57639Variations of permissionsApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 12 March 2015

Council decision: Grant Conditional Temporary PermissionPlanning committee

Proposal

Removal of condition 6 of DC/11/53628 to retain use as wedding hall permanently with proposed new canopy over main entrance.

Received
30 October 2014
Decision level
Planning committee
Public comments
2
Ward
Soho & Victoria
  1. Received30 Oct
  2. Validated10 Nov
  3. Consult.4 May
  4. Target5 Jan
  5. Decided12 Mar

Decided in 122 days

About this application

This is a planning application at 171 & 72 Rolfe Street Smethwick B66 2AU. Sandwell has handled 5,268 applications of this type. This one was decided in 133 days, 11 weeks 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.

Application details

Postcode
B66 2AU
Application type
Variations of permissions
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
10 November 2014
Consultation expiry
4 May 2015
Consultation start
13 April 2015
Consultation end
4 May 2015
Neighbour consultation start
16 March 2015
Neighbour consultation end
4 December 2014
Last date for comments
4 May 2015
Target decision date
5 January 2015
Committee meeting
11 February 2015
Application expires
5 January 2015
Permission expires
12 March 2017

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
12 November 2014
Advertisement expiry
4 December 2014
Site notice start
13 November 2014
Site notice end
4 December 2014

Additional information

Documents
25
Constraints
25

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: 173 Rolfe 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

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.

Associated applications

  1. 2014
    30 Oct

    Removal of condition 6 of DC/11/53628

    This applicationApprovedVariation of conditions (s73)DC/14/57639
  2. 2011
    21 Jul

    Retention of use as wedding hall.

    ApprovedChange of UsePart ofDC/11/53628

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