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Arran Medical Centre Mull Croft Smiths Wood Solihull B36 0PU

PL/2025/00132/PNCEC3Prior Notification COU - (E to C3)Approved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 28 March 2025

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

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Prior notification for change of use from Class E to C3 for 8 No. 1 person residential apartments.

Received
23 January 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Smiths Wood
Agent
Gold Sketch Studios LTD
  1. Received23 Jan
  2. Validated3 Feb
  3. Consult.4 Mar
  4. Target31 Mar
  5. Decided28 Mar

Decided in 53 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Arran Medical Centre Mull Croft Smiths Wood Solihull B36 0PU. Solihull has handled 567 applications of this type. This one was decided in 64 days, 8 days longer 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 3 applications across Smiths Wood. We hold 374 applications in total for the B36 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
B36 0PU
Application type
Prior Notification COU - (E to C3)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Smiths Wood Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 February 2025
Consultation expiry
4 March 2025
Consultation start
4 February 2025
Consultation end
4 March 2025
Neighbour consultation start
5 February 2025
Neighbour consultation end
27 February 2025
Last date for comments
4 March 2025
Target decision date
31 March 2025
Permission expires
28 March 2030

Applicant and agent

Agent
Gold Sketch Studios LTD
Architect profile
GOLD SKETCH STUDIOS LTD
Agent address
55A Bury Old Road Prestwich M25 0FG

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
6 February 2025
Site notice end
28 February 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13711705
Documents
16

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • 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

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: Solihull

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