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The Pavillion National Exhibition Centre Pendigo Way Solihull B40 1NT

PL/2025/00872/PNPrior Notification DemolitionApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 23 May 2025

Council decision: Prior Approval Not RequiredDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Prior notification for demolition of high ropes, chinook, and associated structures relating to former Bear Grylls Adventure themed attraction.

Received
28 April 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Bickenhill
  1. Received28 Apr
  2. Validated28 Apr
  3. Consult.22 May
  4. Target26 May
  5. Decided23 May

Decided in 25 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for demolition at The Pavillion National Exhibition Centre Pendigo Way Solihull B40 1NT. Solihull has handled 567 applications of this type. This one was decided in 25 days, 4 weeks quicker 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 25 applications across Bickenhill. We hold 10 applications in total for the B40 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
B40 1NT
Application type
Prior Notification Demolition
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bickenhill Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 April 2025
Consultation expiry
22 May 2025
Consultation start
30 April 2025
Consultation end
22 May 2025
Last date for comments
28 May 2025
Target decision date
26 May 2025
Permission expires
23 May 2030

Applicant and agent

Agent
Lichfields
Agent address
The Minster Building 21 Mincing Lane London EC3R 7AG United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
28 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13932913
Documents
19

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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