8 Orchard Road Hockley Heath Solihull B94 6QR
Approved on 14 July 2025
Delegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Two storey extension to form additional bedroom spaces above existing garage and utility area.
- Received
- 12 May 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Dorridge And Hockley Heath
- ReceivedReceived12 May
- ValidatedValidated27 May
- Consult.Consultation2 Jul
- TargetTarget Date22 Jul
- DecidedDecided14 Jul
Decided in 48 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a garage at 8 Orchard Road Hockley Heath Solihull B94 6QR. Solihull has handled 4,519 applications of this type. This one was decided in 63 days, 7 days longer than Solihull's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 25 applications across Dorridge And Hockley Heath. We hold 1,035 applications in total for the B94 postcode area.
93% of full 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
- B94 6QR
- Application type
- Minor Full Householder
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Hockley Heath Parish Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 27 May 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 2 July 2025
- Consultation start
- 4 June 2025
- Consultation end
- 2 July 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 4 June 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 26 June 2025
- Last date for comments
- 2 July 2025
- Target decision date
- 22 July 2025
- Permission expires
- 14 July 2028
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Finches
- Agent address
- Edge Lane Henley In Arden B95 5DS
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Additional information
- Documents
- 13
Site constraints
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.
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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.
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