Aaina Community Hub, Bath Road, Walsall, WS1 3BS

Planning appeal 3316356 at Aaina Community Hub, Bath Road, Walsall, WS1 3BS (Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council) was allowed on 25 October 2023 by Inspector Greenwood L, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: The effect of the proposal on local character and appearance including the setting of the Grade II listed Church of St Michael's and All Angels and the settings of the nearby Highgate and Caldmore Green Conservation Areas.

demolition of an existing community hub and construction of a new community hub

Authority: Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council
Appeal type: minor · Planning Appeal
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: community-institutional · Other minor developments
Inspector: Greenwood L
Postcode: WS1 3BS

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

The effect of the proposal on local character and appearance including the setting of the Grade II listed Church of St Michael's and All Angels and the settings of the nearby Highgate and Caldmore Green Conservation Areas

What decided it

The proposed new community hub, taking the existing building as a baseline, would be a higher quality development that would preserve the character and appearance of the local area including the heritage assets, and the public benefits of improved community facilities would clearly outweigh any minor heritage harm.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies: GP2ENV27ENV32ENV2ENV3CSP4DW1DW2DW3DW9
National Planning Policy Framework: Paragraph 199Paragraph 200Paragraph 202Paragraph 12Paragraph 16

How the Inspector dealt with each one is set out in the app, in order: the development plan, national policy, housing land supply, other considerations and the planning balance, beside the letter.

See how each was applied

The decision letter

Town Planner Pro holds this letter. The Appeals plan opens it and every other letter we hold, all of them searchable, with the main issues and what decided each case picked out. We do not show letters on the free site because they carry people’s names and addresses.

Appeals plan, £15 a month

With an account

What an account adds to this decision

75 other decided appeals within two kilometres of this site. In the app every dot opens its decision, and its letter wherever one was published, and you can draw your own site to see what has been decided around it.AllowedDismissedSplitThis decision

An appeal decision in the app, with the main issues, policies and judgments cited picked out beside the letter — Every letter, there to read. We pick out the main issues, the policies and the judgments cited, so you can work through the letter faster.

Searching the full text of appeal decision letters in the app — Search inside every letter. By words or by meaning, filtered by authority, outcome, appeal type and procedure, with every locatable decision on the map and the Inspector named on each.

Start your free trial

More decisions in Walsall

The authority’s record since 2016 · every decision in 2023

Dismissed15 October 20266008716
Rooftop Food Court, Multi-Storey Car Park, George St, Walsall, Ws1 1RS
Dismissed30 September 20266013877
57, Lincoln Road, Walsall, WS1 2DW
Dismissed12 June 20266004807
Land South of Pasture View, Pasture View, Pelsall, Walsall, WS3 4LH
Allowed27 May 20266004148
371 Middlemore Lane, Aldridge, Walsall, WS9 8SP
Allowed22 May 20266005274
5 Highgate Close, Walsall, WS1 3JD

The main issues, what decided it, the planning balance and the policies and judgments listed as cited are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro and are our summary, not the Inspector’s words; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.