105 Grange Road Olton Solihull B91 1BZ
Refused on 9 January 2026
Delegated (officer decision)1 reason for refusal
Proposal
Certificate of lawful development for proposed change of use from a 7 No. bedroom dwelling (Class C3) to a care home for up to 5 No. children (Class C2).
- Received
- 15 December 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Olton
- ReceivedReceived15 Dec
- ValidatedValidated15 Dec
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date9 Feb
- DecidedDecided9 Jan
Decided in 25 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an outline application for a change of use at 105 Grange Road Olton Solihull B91 1BZ. 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 have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 129 applications across Olton. We hold 1,400 applications in total for the B91 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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Why it was refused
- Having reviewed the submitted information including the statement and the existing and proposed floor plan layouts, the proposed change of use from a 7No bedroom dwelling (Class C3) to a care home for up to 5 No. children (Class C2) with a maximum of 5No carers on site during the day (3 carers staying until 11pm), plus a manager and deputy manager on occasions (separately or together, between 9am-5pm), and up to 3no. carers during the night (one of which would be waking-night carer) constitutes a material change of use to a C2 use for which there is no permitted change under Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1987 (as amended). Should the applicant wish to pursue this proposal an application for full planning permission for change of use should be submitted.
From the council's decision notice.
Application details
- Postcode
- B91 1BZ
- Application type
- Cert. Lawful Dev Proposed
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Non-Civil Parish Or Community
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 15 December 2025
- Target decision date
- 9 February 2026
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Knights
- Agent address
- The Brampton Newcastle-under-Lyme ST5 0QW
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14558548
- Documents
- 6
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.
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.
Planning history at this site
2 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 202629 Jul
Change of use of dwellinghouse (C3) to a children's home (C2) for up to four children (aged 8-17 years).
ApprovedChange of UsePL/2026/01412/PPFL - 202612 Jan
Certificate of lawful development for proposed change of use of a 7 No. bedroom dwelling to a care home for…
RefusedCert. Lawful Dev ProposedPL/2026/00059/CLOPUD
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