Heathland Farm House Birmingham Road Whitacre Heath B46 2EP Data via plota.co.uk

2026/0754/LAWP - Certificate of Lawfulness for Proposed Development Pending

Proposal

Application for a Certificate of Lawfulness for Proposed Development under section 192 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 for the erection of an outbuilding for purposes incidental to the enjoyment of the dwellinghouse pursuant to Schedule 2, Part 1, Class E of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended), comprising a private swimming pool, domestic gym and ancillary home office Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

✓
Received
21 Sept 2026
✓
Validated
5 Oct 2026
Decision
Expected by 30 Nov 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision between 21 Dec 2026 and 10 Jan 2027, from North Warwickshire's recent extensions.

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. Some green belt land can count as grey belt, where it does not strongly serve the green belt's purposes. The council decides this in its green belt assessment or on each application, so we do not mark it here.
Read the government guidance ↗
Flood zone 3, rivers and sea
High chance: a 1 in 100 or greater annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 from the sea. Any development here needs a flood risk assessment. Defences are not counted.
The Environment Agency flood map for planning. Homes in zone 3 must also pass the sequential test. Surface water flooding is a separate map.
Flood map ↗
Article 4 direction
Borough wide. Named permitted development rights are withdrawn here.
An Article 4 direction withdraws particular permitted development rights, so work that would normally need no application needs one here. Not every council has published its directions.
Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 2
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
SSSI about 202 m away: Whitacre Heath SSSI
Natural England may need consulting, depending on what is proposed.
Sites of special scientific interest are the best wildlife and geological sites in the country. Development likely to harm one is rarely permitted.
Also on the record
National infrastructure project about 342 m away: The Grand Union Canal Transfer, at pre-application; Inside the Whitacre Heath built-up area.
Not affected
No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 17 October 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, the Planning Inspectorate 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.

Sales history 2

Last sold for £845,000 in August 2007. Detached house, freehold.

20 August 2007£845,000
19 September 2003£575,000

Sale prices from HM Land Registry's price paid record, matched to this application by its address.

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Important details

Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness for Proposed Development
Postcode
B46 2EP
Received
21 Sept 2026
Validated
5 Oct 2026
Case officer
Show
Target decision
30 Nov 2026
Decision level
Delegated
Applicant
Show
Agent
Joseph Robertshaw

Decision outlook

Day 23 of the 56-day target. North Warwickshire usually decides extensions by day 86.

Day 2363 days to the predicted decision (day 86)
16%decided within 8 weeks
98%approved
128decided in the last year

Plota live figures for extensions decided by North Warwickshire in the last twelve months, from validation. North Warwickshire decision record →

Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 24 Oct 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Statutory expiry
30 Nov 2026
North Warwickshire
Planning Authority Score
3.9/10
Below average
#199 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

North Warwickshire is slower than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #246 out of 296. The council extends the time limit on 57% of applications - one of the highest rates in England. Expect your application to take longer than the standard deadline. Householder applications are more likely to be approved here than most councils, with a 97% approval rate vs 90% nationally.

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
North Warwickshire decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
93%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #63 of 296
97%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #37 of 296
48%
Decided in 8 weeks
Below avg (63%) #246 of 296
57%
Extended time limit
Above avg (41%) #258 of 296
84%
Minor dwellings approved
63 decided (1-9 homes)
80%
Major dwellings approved
5 decided (10+ homes)
88%
Change of use approved
26 decided
368
Total decisions
24 refused in the year to March 2026

Sale prices: Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.