27 Dene Court Road Olton Solihull B92 8DG
Refused on 6 February 2026
Delegated (officer decision)1 reason for refusal
Proposal
Certificate of lawful development proposed reuse of a (3a) dwelling house as a children's home for up to two children, with a manager and two carers working on rota basis (2).
- Received
- 19 December 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Lyndon
- Agent
- ANJUM DESIGN Ltd
- ReceivedReceived19 Dec
- ValidatedValidated19 Dec
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date13 Feb
- DecidedDecided6 Feb
Decided in 49 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an outline application at 27 Dene Court Road Olton Solihull B92 8DG. Solihull has handled 567 applications of this type. This one was decided in 49 days, 7 days quicker than Solihull's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 66 applications across Lyndon. We hold 2,282 applications in total for the B92 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 submitted cover letter details and existing and proposed floor plan layouts, the proposed change of use from dwelling house use class C3(a) as a small scale care home (use class C2) would not constitute permitted development under Schedule 2, Article 3 - Permitted Development Rights, Part 3 - Changes of use, Class C under the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended)
From the council's decision notice.
Application details
- Postcode
- B92 8DG
- Application type
- Cert. Lawful Dev Proposed
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Non-Civil Parish Or Community
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 19 December 2025
- Target decision date
- 13 February 2026
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- ANJUM DESIGN Ltd
- Architect profile
- ANJUM DESIGN LIMITED
- Agent address
- 435 Stratford Road Shirley Solihull B90 4AA United Kingdom
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14580910
- Documents
- 7
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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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.
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Planning history at this site
1 other application at this property, newest first.
Source: Solihull
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