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71 Birch Road Oldbury B68 0EP

DC/25/70663HouseholderApproved

Approved on 24 October 2025

Council decision: Grant Permission Subject to ConditionsPlanning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Proposed single storey rear extension and raising the height of the existing garage flat roof.

Received
23 May 2025
Decision level
Planning committee
Public comments
3
Ward
Old Warley
  1. Received23 May
  2. Validated27 May
  3. Consult.21 Aug
  4. Target31 Oct
  5. Decided24 Oct

Decided in 150 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a single storey rear extension at 71 Birch Road Oldbury B68 0EP. Sandwell has handled 2,543 applications of this type. This one was decided in 154 days, 14 weeks longer than Sandwell's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 28 applications across Old Warley. We hold 280 applications in total for the B68 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
B68 0EP
Application type
Householder
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 May 2025
Consultation expiry
21 August 2025
Neighbour consultation start
31 July 2025
Neighbour consultation end
21 August 2025
Last date for comments
21 August 2025
Target decision date
31 October 2025
Committee meeting
22 October 2025
Permission expires
24 October 2028

Planning decision

Statutory period
157 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14042676
Documents
23
Constraints
5

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

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© 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.

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Associated applications

  1. 2025
    29 Oct

    Proposed discharge of condition 4 of planning permission DC/25/70663

    ApprovedDischarge of conditionsDOC/25/00949
  2. 2025
    23 May

    Proposed single storey rear extension and raising the height of the existing garage flat roof.

    This applicationApprovedFullDC/25/70663

Source: Sandwell

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