Bleakhouse Junior School Bleakhouse Road Oldbury B68 9DS
Approved on 27 February 2026
Council decision: Prior Approval is Required and GrantedDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Proposed installation of No.100 solar panels to existing pitched roof planes.
- Received
- 15 January 2026
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Bristnall
- Agent
- Luke Strange Architecture Ltd
- ReceivedReceived15 Jan
- ValidatedValidated15 Jan
- Consult.Consultation9 Feb
- TargetTarget Date12 Mar
- DecidedDecided27 Feb
Decided in 43 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an outline application for a solar installation at Bleakhouse Junior School Bleakhouse Road Oldbury B68 9DS. Sandwell has handled 681 applications of this type. This one was decided in 43 days, 13 days quicker than Sandwell's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 20 applications across Bristnall. We hold 281 applications in total for the B68 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
- B68 9DS
- Application type
- Prior Notification All Others
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 15 January 2026
- Consultation expiry
- 9 February 2026
- Neighbour consultation start
- 19 January 2026
- Neighbour consultation end
- 9 February 2026
- Last date for comments
- 9 February 2026
- Target decision date
- 12 March 2026
- Permission expires
- 27 February 2031
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Luke Strange Architecture Ltd
- Agent address
- 20 Hollicondane Road Ramsgate CT11 7PH
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Site constraints
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.
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© 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.
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Source: Sandwell
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