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The Old School House Widney Road Bentley Heath Solihull B93 9BH

PL/2003/01724/FULLMinor Full ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 14 August 2003

Council decision: Full Plans ApprovalPlanning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Conversion and new build comprising of 6 no. Two storey appartments.

Received
26 June 2003
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Knowle
  1. Received26 Jun
  2. Validated26 Jun
  3. Consult.18 Aug
  4. Target21 Aug
  5. Decided14 Aug

Decided in 49 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a new dwelling at The Old School House Widney Road Bentley Heath Solihull B93 9BH. Solihull has handled 4,519 applications of this type. This one was decided in 49 days, 7 days quicker than Solihull's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 4 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 129 applications across Knowle. We hold 2,052 applications in total for the B93 postcode area.

93% of full applications at Solihull 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
B93 9BH
Application type
Minor Full Application
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
26 June 2003
Consultation expiry
18 August 2003
Consultation start
28 July 2003
Consultation end
18 August 2003
Neighbour consultation start
20 August 2003
Last date for comments
18 August 2003
Target decision date
21 August 2003
Committee meeting
13 August 2003
Decision issued
15 August 2003
Permission expires
15 August 2008

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
10

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)

Not published by this council, so not checked: conservation areas and Article 4 directions. Ask the council if these matter.

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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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© 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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