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Land Adjacent To Oak House Back Lane Meriden Solihull

PL/2025/00871/PPOLMinor Outline DwellingsRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 5 December 2025

Delegated (officer decision)1 reason for refusal

Proposal

Outline application for demolition of existing stables and replacement with new dwelling, including access, appearance, layout and scale. Landscape reserved.

Received
28 April 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Meriden
Agent
Iain Denton Ltd
  1. Received28 Apr
  2. Validated1 May
  3. Consult.6 Aug
  4. Target26 Jun
  5. Decided5 Dec

Decided in 218 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for demolition at Land Adjacent To Oak House Back Lane Meriden Solihull. Solihull has handled 567 applications of this type. This one was decided in 221 days, 24 weeks longer than Solihull's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 17 applications across Meriden.

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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Why it was refused

  1. The proposed residential development amounts to inappropriate development in the Green Belt. This causes harm by definition, harm to openness and is contrary to the purposes of including land in the Green Belt. It is not considered that any very special circumstances have been put forward in support of the proposals to clearly outweigh this harm. Therefore Very Special Circumstances do not exist that would need to be demonstrated in accordance with the NPPF and Policy P17 of the Solihull Local Plan if the presumption against inappropriate development in the Green Belt is to be overcome. The proposed development is therefore contrary to Policy P17 of the Solihull Local Plan and the NPPF.

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Application type
Minor Outline Dwellings
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Berkswell Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
1 May 2025
Consultation expiry
6 August 2025
Consultation start
9 July 2025
Consultation end
6 August 2025
Neighbour consultation start
7 May 2025
Neighbour consultation end
29 May 2025
Last date for comments
6 August 2025
Target decision date
26 June 2025
Permission expires
5 December 2030

Applicant and agent

Agent
Iain Denton Ltd
Architect profile
IAIN DENTON LTD.
Agent address
9 Woodstock Crescent Dorridge Knowle Solihull B93 8DA United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
16 May 2025
Site notice end
9 June 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13712096
Documents
12

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.

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