Carpenter Place, 101-105 Oldfield Road, Birmingham, B12 8TN

Without planning permission, the unauthorised change of use to a homelessness hostel (Sui Generis) in the approximate position marked in green on the attached plan

Authority: Birmingham City Council
Appeal type: enforcement · Enforcement Notice
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: community-institutional · Change of use
Inspector: Hanson S

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

The effect of the development on the character of the area with particular regard to the living conditions of local residents in terms of disturbance, crime and disorder and fear of crime
The living conditions of occupants of the appeal site

What decided it

The use is over-intensive for the size of the site and its residential context, resulting in unacceptable harm to neighbouring residential amenity through noise, disturbance, crime and fear of crime, and inadequate internal communal facilities for residents.

Plan policies cited: Policy PG3, Policy TP27, Policy DM2, Policy DM12, Specific Needs Residential Uses SPG, Places for Living SPG, Birmingham Unitary Development Plan 2005 paragraphs 8.28 and 8.29

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