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Hawthorns House Hawthorns Business Centre Halfords Lane Smethwick B66 1BB

PD/19/01137Prior Notification All OthersApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 26 March 2019

Council decision: P D Change of Use required and grantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Proposed change of use from offices to 105 flats.

Received
21 January 2019
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
St Pauls
Agent
Design Board Architectural Services
  1. Received21 Jan
  2. Validated30 Jan
  3. Consult.22 Feb
  4. Target27 Mar
  5. Decided26 Mar

Decided in 55 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Hawthorns House Hawthorns Business Centre Halfords Lane Smethwick B66 1BB. Sandwell has handled 681 applications of this type. This one was decided in 64 days, 8 days longer than Sandwell's typical decision time. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 21 applications across St Pauls. We hold 775 applications in total for the B66 postcode area.

90% of outline 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 1BB
Application type
Prior Notification All Others
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
105

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 January 2019
Consultation expiry
22 February 2019
Consultation start
1 February 2019
Consultation end
22 February 2019
Neighbour consultation start
30 January 2019
Neighbour consultation end
22 February 2019
Last date for comments
22 February 2019
Target decision date
27 March 2019
Permission expires
26 March 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent
Design Board Architectural Services
Agent address
78 Stanley Road Wellingborough Northants NN8 1EA

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
5
Constraints
8

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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