The free appeal record

Planning appeals in Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council

Name: Planning appeal decisions in Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council
Creator: Town Planner Pro
License: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

One authority from the free search of every English planning appeal since 2016, searchable by words or by meaning.

Appeals the Planning Inspectorate has decided in Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council since 2016, refreshed nightly. A decision the Inspectorate published without naming the authority in a form we can match is listed under its own address instead. Type a topic into the free search to read how Inspectors have reasoned here.

The Planning Inspectorate has decided 243 planning appeals in Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council since 2016, of which 33% were allowed. In the last twelve months there were 44 decisions, 32% allowed. The median time from receipt of an appeal to its decision is 22 weeks. Figures as at 29 October 2026, from the Inspectorate's published decisions.

247

appeals on record since 2016

33%

of decided appeals allowed

22 wks

median receipt to decision

decisions in the last 12 months, 32% allowed

By appeal type

Householder91 decided

22% allowed

Minor108 decided

45% allowed

Major7 decided

57% allowed

Commercial9 decided

22% allowed

Enforcement18 decided

6% allowed

Other8 decided

13% allowed

Not classified6 decided

50% allowed

By procedure

Written representations244 decided

32% allowed

Hearings2 decided

50% allowed

Inquiries1 decided

0% allowed

Every decision, by year

2026 · 36 · 36% allowed 2025 · 33 · 31% allowed 2024 · 21 · 33% allowed 2023 · 20 · 39% allowed 2022 · 20 · 30% allowed 2021 · 12 · 33% allowed 2020 · 22 · 18% allowed 2019 · 33 · 52% allowed 2018 · 29 · 31% allowed 2017 · 15 · 14% allowed 2016 · 6 · 17% allowed

Latest decisions in Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council

Dismissed22 October 2026· householder6014671
68 Abbotsford Avenue, Great Barr, Birmingham, B43 6HD
new 1.75m composite panel walls/ sliding gate installed to front and side of driveway
Dismissed14 October 2026· minor6012406
64 Wolverhampton Road, Oldbury, B68 0LJ
the change of use from residential dwelling to 6 No. bedroom 8 No. person HMO with hip to gable roof extension, rear dormer window and reduction in ground levels to front for extended driveway and new retaining walls
Allowed23 September 20266010155
Former Crown Inn, 97 Station Road, Cradley Heath, B64 6NT
Demolition of existing public house and proposed retail unit with parking, landscaping and associated works
Notice varied and upheld16 September 20263371483
48 Parsons Hill, Oldbury, B68 9BS
Notice varied and upheld16 September 20263371468
50 Parsons Hill, Oldbury, B68 9BS
Allowed24 August 2026· minor6009660
6 Rooth Street, Wednesbury, WS10 9QP
Internal alterations to form a change of use from a 6-person House in Multiple Occupation (Class C4) to a 7-bedroom House in Multiple Occupation (Sui Generis)
Dismissed21 August 2026· minor6007680
32 Bell End, Rowley Regis, West Midlands, B65 9LR
nursery for 10 no. children and flat on first floor
Allowed14 August 2026· householder6010594
23, Monksfield Avenue, Birmingham, B43 6AP
the erection of a two-storey front and side extension and single storey front extension
Notice upheld31 July 2026· enforcement3371096
134 Franchise Street, Wednesbury, WS10 9RG
Notice upheld31 July 2026· enforcement3371095
134 Franchise Street, Wednesbury, WS10 9RG
Notice upheld31 July 2026· enforcement3371094
134 Franchise Street, Wednesbury, WS10 9RG
Without Planning Permission, unauthorised development from warehouse to car sales, external alterations to front. ("the. Unauthorised Development")
Dismissed31 July 2026· householder6010738
62, Gorse Farm Road, Great Barr Birmingham, B43 5LR
the retention of a single storey and two storey rear extension, and hip to gable roof loft conversion with dormers to front, side and rear
Dismissed27 July 20266008753
337-345 Halesowen Road, Cradley Heath, B64 6PH
the retention of first floor extension to rear and dormer window to rear and proposed change of use of first floor E Class (storage) retail area including roof area to 4 No. new 1 and 2 bedroom flats
Allowed1 July 20266006966
Trident Steel Works, Albion Road, Greets Green, Sandwell, B70 8BH
the change of use of the building under classes B2/B8 use into a gym under Class E
Allowed26 June 2026· minor6003517
Land at High Haden Road and Farmhouse Close, Cradley Heath, B64 7PE
the construction of 6no. dwellings

Town Planner Pro

What an account adds

Draw a red line around your site and the appraisal follows.
- Heritage. Listed buildings by grade and distance, conservation areas, scheduled monuments, registered parks and gardens, heritage at risk.
- Landscape and environment. Green belt, national parks and national landscapes, SSSIs, ancient woodland, priority habitats, SPA, SAC and Ramsar sites, nutrient catchments, and the predicted agricultural land grade.
- London Plan. For a London site, site allocations, Metropolitan Open Land, nature conservation sites, protected vistas, the Central Activities Zone, Opportunity Areas, town centres, industrial land and Air Quality Focus Areas, from the Greater London Authority.
- Flooding. Flood zones 2 and 3, surface water, and both again with climate change.
- Transport. The 800 metre station catchment and service frequency, bus stops with their weekday frequency, the cycle network, the Framework’s transport tests measured for the site, and in London TfL’s PTAL across the red line.
Then the development plan position, the housing land supply as an Inspector last accepted it, and every appeal decided around the site, with the letter wherever one was published.
Every English appeal since 2016, with the letter behind it wherever the Inspectorate published one. The letter itself held on file and read in full, with the key case law counted live across the letters.
Casework that chases the deadlines. Applications, appeals and conditions with their statutory dates.
The judgement stays yours. The tool gathers the material and dates it.

£39 a month plus VAT, everything included; the appeal record on its own from £15. Fourteen days free, no payment card needed.

Start your free trial Already a member? Open it in the app

Every appeal decided around the site, from a kilometre out to ten, nearest first, the letter a tap away wherever one was published. Precedent as a constraint layer.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Figures are computed from decisions the Planning Inspectorate has published for this authority area and refresh with the record; decisions without a published letter or a recorded authority may be missing. This page is research, not advice. Verify against the Inspectorate’s own record before relying on a decision. What is in the record.