Town Planner Pro
Free trial
Search appeal decisions

Planning appeal decision

Dismissed10 September 20253365918

Unit H, Maybrook Industrial Estate, Maybrook Road, Walsall, WS8 7DG

Planning appeal 3365918 at Unit H, Maybrook Industrial Estate, Maybrook Road, Walsall, WS8 7DG (Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council) was dismissed on 10 September 2025 by Inspector Hughes L, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: whether the proposed development would be sited in an appropriate location.

change of use from general industrial (Class B2) to a children’s play centre (Sui Generis)

Authority
Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council
Appeal type
minor · Planning Appeal
Procedure
Written Representations
Development
leisure-sport · Change of use
Inspector
Hughes L
Postcode
WS8 7DG

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • whether the proposed development would be sited in an appropriate location
  • the effect of the proposed development on highway and pedestrian safety

What decided it

The proposal would result in the loss of an industrial use from a protected high quality employment area and would not be sited in an appropriate location, conflicting with the development plan, and this conflict was not outweighed by the modest economic and social benefits.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies
Policy IND2 (Walsall Site Allocation Document 2019)Policy EMP2 (Black Country Core Strategy 2011)Policy CEN7 (Black Country Core Strategy 2011)Saved Policy S7 (Walsall Unitary Development Plan 2005)Saved UDP Policy T13Saved UDP Policies T7 and T13BCCS Policy TRAN2
National Planning Policy Framework
Paragraph 85

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

25 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 2025

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

In the app this decision sits on the map beside every appeal around it, with its letter to read and the main issues, policies and judgments cited picked out.