Valley Nurseries, Erdington Road, Walsall, WS9 0SB Data via plota.co.uk

26/0776 - Full Application Undergoing Registration Process
Commercial & major worksSchools, care & communityCommercial premises

Proposal

Full planning application for the retention of 8 concession units operating within Valley Nurseries. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
4 Aug 2026
Decision
Expected by 28 Sept 2026

This application is under consideration - no decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision by 14 Oct 2026, from Walsall's recent commercial premises.

Documents

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Site constraints 7

Green belt: Birmingham
Inappropriate development needs very special circumstances.
Green belt policy allows a short list of exceptions, such as limited extensions and replacement buildings. Anything else needs very special circumstances that clearly outweigh the harm.
Agricultural land, grade 2
Best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s), which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 3. The predicted grade is Defra's current estimate; only a site survey settles it.
Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.
Air quality management area: Walsall AQMA
The council has declared the area as failing an air quality objective.
Schemes that add traffic, parking or combustion plant are assessed against the area's action plan and may need an air quality assessment.
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Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 1
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
Nature recovery project: Purple Horizons; Nature improvement area: Birmingham and the Black Country; Priority habitat about 46 m away: Traditional orchard.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 24 September 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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Important details

Council
Walsall
Application type
Full Application
Postcode
WS9 0SB
Received
4 Aug 2026
Validated
4 Aug 2026
Ward
Aldridge Central & South
Case officer
Show
Target decision
28 Sept 2026
Applicant
Show
Agent
Reade Buray Associates

Decision outlook

Day 61 of the 56-day target. Walsall usually decides commercial premises by day 66.

Day 615 days to the predicted decision (day 66)
41%decided within 8 weeks
72%approved
50decided in the last year

Plota live figures for commercial premises decided by Walsall in the last twelve months, from validation. Walsall decision record →

Historical activity at this location

4 nearby applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2025 Approved
VALLEY NURSERIES, ERDINGTON ROAD, ALDRIDGE, WALSALL, WS9 0SB
Lawful Development Certificate for the existing use of the site as a Garden and Landscapi…
25/1321
2019 Approved
297, ERDINGTON ROAD, ALDRIDGE, WALSALL, WS9 0SB
T1 - Lime - thin crown centre by 15% removing suckers off trunk. Trim lower hem up to 5 m…
19/0193
2018 Approved
BUILDING AND GARDEN SUPPLIES LTD, BARR COMMON ROAD, ALDRIDGE, WALSALL, WS9 0SB
Variation of condition 2 of permission 15/1739 to update site plan to reflect fencing and…
18/0774
2016 Approved
LAND TO THE WEST OF BUILDING AND GARDEN SUPPLIES LTD, ERDINGTON ROAD, ALDRIDGE, WALSALL, WS9 0SB
Variation to Condition 2 of planning permission 15/1739 to amend approved plans to includ…
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Walsall
Planning Authority Score
2.1/10
Poor
#271 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

Walsall is slower than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #228 out of 296. The council extends the time limit on 56% of applications - one of the highest rates in England. Expect your application to take longer than the standard deadline. Householder applications are slightly less likely to be approved here (89%) than the national average (90%).

Frequently extends decision deadlines
expect longer than the statutory limit
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
Walsall decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
84%
Overall approval rate
Below avg (87%) #230 of 296
89%
Householder approved
Below avg (90%) #213 of 296
52%
Decided in 8 weeks
Below avg (63%) #228 of 296
56%
Extended time limit
Above avg (41%) #257 of 296
66%
Minor dwellings approved
95 decided (1-9 homes)
75%
Major dwellings approved
4 decided (10+ homes)
60%
Change of use approved
48 decided
800
Total decisions
128 refused in the year to March 2026
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings