5, Highgate Avenue, Walsall, WS1 3BH

24/1098Certificate: Lawful DevelopmentWithdrawn

Lawful development certificate

Withdrawn on 17 September 2024

Council decision: Withdrawn Full Valid Application

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

Proposal

Lawful Development Certificate for a change of use from residential dwelling (Use Class C3) to Children’s Care Home (Use Class C2) to accommodate care for 1no person and 2no. carers.

Received: 4 September 2024
Council: Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council
Ward: St Matthews

ReceivedReceived4 Sep
ValidatedValidated
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date30 Oct
DecidedDecided17 Sep

Decided in 13 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 5, HIGHGATE AVENUE, WALSALL, WS1 3BH. Walsall has handled 347 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 13 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 15 applications across St Matthews. We hold 1,353 applications in total for the WS1 postcode area.

74% of amendment applications at Walsall 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: WS1 3BH
Application type: Certificate: Lawful Development
Scale / size: Small

Planning application dates

Validated: 4 September 2024
Target decision date: 30 October 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address: 74, Alderney Gardens, Kings Norton, Birmingham, West Midlands, B38 8YW

Planning decision

Statutory period: 56 days

Additional information

Documents: 8

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: Article 4 directions. Ask the council if these matter.

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation 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.

Source: Walsall

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