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Benton Lane Farm Benton Green Lane Berkswell Solihull CV7 7AY

PL/2025/00544/CLEUDCert. Lawful Dev ExistingApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 19 June 2025

Delegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Certificate of Lawfulness for the retention of extensions A1, A2 and A3 to Outbuilding A, and the use of Outbuilding A so extended and Outbuilding B as residential accommodation incidental to the use of Benton Lane Farm, Benton Green Lane, Berkswell CV7 7AY as a single dwellinghouse.

Received
17 March 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Meriden
  1. Received17 Mar
  2. Validated17 Mar
  3. Consult.18 Apr
  4. Target12 May
  5. Decided19 Jun

Decided in 94 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Benton Lane Farm Benton Green Lane Berkswell Solihull CV7 7AY. Solihull has handled 430 applications of this type. This one was decided in 94 days, 5 weeks longer than Solihull's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 17 applications across Meriden. We hold 1,121 applications in total for the CV7 postcode area.

79% of amendment applications at Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

Based on decided applications received in the last 3 years.See what's approved near your address

Application details

Postcode
CV7 7AY
Application type
Cert. Lawful Dev Existing
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Berkswell Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 March 2025
Consultation expiry
19 May 2025
Consultation start
21 March 2025
Consultation end
18 April 2025
Neighbour consultation start
21 March 2025
Neighbour consultation end
14 April 2025
Last date for comments
19 May 2025
Target decision date
12 May 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Tyler Parkes
Agent address
66 Stratford Road Shirley Solihull B90 3LP United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
25 April 2025
Site notice end
19 May 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13861293
Documents
5

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Green belt: Solihull
  • 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 (20)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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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