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68 Kingsway Oldbury B68 0PZ
Proposed change of use from residential dwelling to 2 No. self-contained apartments.
13 Wood Lane West Bromwich B70 9PZ
Retention of front porch extension.
20 Seagar Street West Bromwich B71 4AN
Proposed single storey rear extension measuring: 6.00m L x 3.99m H (2.99m to eaves)
Land Adj 61 Harvest Road Rowley Regis B65 8EL
Proposed 1 No. residential dwelling and associated works.
44 Poplar Road Smethwick B66 4AN
Proposed single storey rear extension measuring: 6.0m L x 3.0m H (2.40m to eaves)
Land Adj To Swallowfield Courtyard Wolverhampton Road Oldbury
Proposed 2 No. outdoor padel courts, parking and associated works.
Chep UK Limited Roebuck Street West Bromwich B70 6RB
Proposed alterations to existing glazing to translucent panels to side and rear.
50 Hembs Crescent Great Barr Birmingham B43 5DG
Proposed single storey rear extension measuring: 3.75m L x 3.00m H (3.00m to eaves)
17 Hollyhedge Road West Bromwich B71 3BP
Conversion of flat roof to roof terrace with glass balustrades above existing single storey rear extension.
73 Talbot Road Smethwick B66 4DX
Proposed single storey rear extension measuring: 6.00m L x 3.20m H (2.40m to eaves)
13 Romsley Road Oldbury B68 9BT
Retention of single storey side/rear extension and detached outbuilding. - ENF/26/13173
8 Greenwood Avenue Oldbury B68 8JF
Proposed rear/side extension.
160 Spouthouse Lane Great Barr Birmingham B43 5QA
Proposed installation of disabled access platform lift, supporting wall, steps and handrails to front.
16 Kingsway Oldbury B68 0QB
Proposed single storey side/rear extension, hip-to-gable roof extension to incorporate loft conversion, roof lights to front and a rear dormer.
Crown Inn 97 Station Road Cradley Heath B64 6NT
Proposed demolition of existing public house and proposed convenience retail unit (Use Class E (a)).
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When Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council refuses an application, or does not decide it in time, the applicant can appeal to the Planning Inspectorate. An appeal that is allowed is one the council lost. Raw rates are not comparable between councils, because some kinds of appeal are allowed far more often than others, so the Inspectorate's national rate for each kind is applied to this council's own caseload to give the rate its mix predicts.
Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council, raw rate
33.6%
of judged appeals were allowed, so the council's decision did not stand
Expected for this mix of appeals
30.7%
what the national rate for each kind of appeal predicts for this council's caseload
2.9 percentage points above expected. Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council's decisions are overturned more often than the national record for the same kinds of appeal predicts for its caseload.
233 appeals counted, 226 judged either way (76 allowed, 150 dismissed), 7 judged neither way. These are appeals decided 2016-07 to 2026-06.
Each kind of appeal against the national rate for the same kind. This is the comparison the headline is built from.
| Appeal type | Cases | Judged | Allowed | This council | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Planning Appeal | 115 | 115 | 54 | 47% | 28.8% |
| Householder (HAS) | 85 | 83 | 18 | 21.7% | 35.6% |
| Enforcement Notice | 15 | 13 | 1 | 7.7% | 13.5% |
| Commercial Appeal Service (CAS) | 9 | 8 | 2 | 25% | 33.3% |
| Advertisement Appeal | 3 | 3 | 1 | Too few judged | 36% |
| Lawful Development Certificate | 2 | 1 | 0 | Too few judged | 36.9% |
| Listed Building Consent & Conservation Area Consent Appeal | 2 | 2 | 0 | Too few judged | 25% |
| Environmental | 1 | 0 | 0 | None judged | Not published |
| High Hedges | 1 | 1 | 0 | Too few judged | 28.5% |
“Judged” counts appeals allowed or dismissed. The rest were withdrawn, invalid, split or unrecorded, and are counted but never treated as appeals the council won. A percentage is published only where at least 5 appeals were judged either way. Where it is not, the counts still are: a rate over one or two cases would claim a precision the sample cannot carry.
Source: the Planning Inspectorate's Casework Database, published quarterly on GOV.UK. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. These figures are the Inspectorate's appeal record, not the council's own planning register.
Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council collects contributions from developers under planning obligations, but we do not yet hold its register in a form we can publish figures from. Only a minority of authorities publish one we can read, and this is not one of them, so we show nothing rather than a figure we cannot stand behind.
Beside what the council collected from developers, this is what central government confirmed: schemes in the area with grant agreed under the Homes England Affordable Homes Programme 2021 to 2026.
Source: Homes England, schemes confirmed under the Affordable Homes Programme 2021 to 2026, published on GOV.UK as transparency data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Figures are as at 31 March 2025, the publication's own cut-off, so later schemes are not in them. Grant requested is the publisher's own figure at the point grant was confirmed, not money drawn down. Schemes are placed by the local authority name in the publication, which carries no planning reference.
Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council is a local planning authority responsible for processing planning applications within its area. Applications are submitted through the council's planning portal and cover a wide range of development types, from householder extensions and change of use to large-scale residential and commercial schemes.
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You can also browse the council's own planning register on the official Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council planning portal.
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