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44A Castle Lane Olton Solihull B92 8DD

PL/2024/00210/PNCEC3Prior Notification COU - (E to C3)Approved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 25 March 2024

Council decision: Prior Approval Required and GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Schedule 2, Part 3, Class MA change of use of existing disused retail (class E) use on ground floor to create 1 residential dwelling.

Received
5 February 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Lyndon
  1. Received5 Feb
  2. Validated5 Feb
  3. Consult.6 Mar
  4. Target1 Apr
  5. Decided25 Mar

Decided in 49 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 44A Castle Lane Olton Solihull B92 8DD. Solihull has handled 567 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 has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 66 applications across Lyndon. We hold 2,282 applications in total for the B92 postcode area.

75% of outline 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
B92 8DD
Application type
Prior Notification COU - (E to C3)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Non-Civil Parish Or Community

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 February 2024
Consultation expiry
6 March 2024
Consultation start
12 February 2024
Consultation end
6 March 2024
Neighbour consultation start
7 February 2024
Neighbour consultation end
29 February 2024
Last date for comments
25 March 2024
Target decision date
1 April 2024
Permission expires
25 March 2029

Applicant and agent

Agent
4DR
Agent address
128 Stoney Lane Yardley B25 8YP

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
12 February 2024
Site notice end
5 March 2024

Additional information

Documents
12

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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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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.

© 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.

Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2025
    29 Dec

    Two storey side and rear extension to form 2 No. apartments.

    ApprovedMinor Full DwellingsPL/2025/02382/PPFL

Source: Solihull

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