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The Pathway Centre, 18, Lichfield Street, Walsall, WS1 1TJ

25/0949Full Application: Change of UseApproved
Full

Approved on 20 February 2026

Council decision: Grant Permission Subject to Conditions6 conditions

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

Proposal

Full planning application for the proposed change of use from offices (Class E) to a SEN school (Class F1) for up to 40 pupils with landscaping works to provide new amenity space, allotments, childrens play area and football pich to the rear with associated boundary treatment works.

Received
10 October 2025
Ward
St Matthews
  1. Received10 Oct
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.27 Nov
  4. Target5 Dec
  5. Decided20 Feb

Decided in 133 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at THE PATHWAY CENTRE, 18, LICHFIELD STREET, WALSALL, WS1 1TJ. Walsall has handled 347 applications of this type. This one was decided in 133 days, 11 weeks longer than Walsall's typical decision time. The site is in the Lichfield Street conservation area. 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 1TJ
Application type
Full Application: Change of Use
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Validated
10 October 2025
Consultation expiry
27 November 2025
Consultation start
6 November 2025
Consultation end
27 November 2025
Target decision date
5 December 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
ANJUM DESIGN Ltd, 435, Stratford Road, Shirley, Solihull, B90 4AA

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
20

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Conservation area: Lichfield Street
  • 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 (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.

Source: Walsall

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