Witney Cottage Windmill Lane Balsall Common Solihull CV7 7GY
Approved on 2 September 2026
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Proposal
Certificate of lawful development for existing detached garage building as a residential annexe ancillary to the main dwellinghouse known as Witney Cottage.
- Received
- 17 February 2026
- Ward
- Meriden & Arden
- Agent
- Simple Planning Solutions Ltd
- ReceivedReceived17 Feb
- ValidatedValidated4 Mar
- Consult.Consultation18 Sep
- TargetTarget Date29 Apr
- DecidedDecided2 Sep
Decided in 182 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an application to amend a permission at Witney Cottage Windmill Lane Balsall Common Solihull CV7 7GY. Solihull has handled 430 applications of this type. This one was decided in 197 days, 20 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 161 applications across Meriden & Arden. We hold 1,121 applications in total for the CV7 postcode area.
79% of amendment 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
- CV7 7GY
- Application type
- Cert. Lawful Dev Existing
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Berkswell Parish Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 4 March 2026
- Consultation expiry
- 17 June 2026
- Consultation start
- 20 May 2026
- Consultation end
- 18 September 2026
- Neighbour consultation start
- 20 May 2026
- Neighbour consultation end
- 12 June 2026
- Last date for comments
- 17 June 2026
- Target decision date
- 29 April 2026
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Simple Planning Solutions Ltd
- Agent address
- 51 Allesley Hall Drive Coventry CV5 9NS United Kingdom
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14702906
- Documents
- 8
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Green belt: Solihull
- 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 (20)
flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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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© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.
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