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\n A plan to add two storeys to a shop to make way for new flats has been rejected by a council.\n <\/p>\n
The work to the former Hateley Heath Post Office and McColl\u2019s convenience store in Jowetts Lane, West Bromwich, would have seen the building\u2019s first floor extended and a second storey added to make way for seven new flats.<\/p>\n
However, planners at Sandwell Council have rejected the application saying it would be too big and add to parking problems.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sandwell Council said a three-storey building would be \u201cout-of-scale\u201d and \u201cunduly prominent\u201d and would lead to a loss of light and outlook for neighbours.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The local authority\u2019s planners also said the extensions and flats plans did not include any parking spaces so it would add to congestion problems in the area.<\/p>\n
Planners at Sandwell Council had criticised the plan for its height before a decision was made \u2013 saying the extra two storeys were \u201cexcessive\u201d and \u201cwholly out of character.\u201d<\/p>\n
The local authority\u2019s highways officers submitted an objection saying the flats would need at least eight parking spaces and none would be provided under the proposals.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Parking issues in Jowetts Lane and neighbouring roads had been raised as an ongoing problem when the empty shop last went before planners in November 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The shop has been the subject of several planning applications and enforcement action from the council in recent years.<\/p>\n
Demolition work to re-open the Jowetts Lane shop had finally been approved by the local authority in 2024 \u2013 nearly 18 months after it had already been carried out by the shop owner.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sandwell Council\u2019s planning committee approved a \u2018retrospective\u2019 application last November for the demolition job which had already started in March 2023 \u2013 work that attracted the attention of enforcement officers at the council following a complaint.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The council stepped in and told UK Wide Real Estate that the extent of the work needed planning permission leaving the makeover half-finished.<\/p>\n
A decision had been deferred twice with councillors eventually visiting the site only to discover that the drawings in the application did not match what had been built. This led to a longer delay while the plans were redrawn.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A plan to add two storeys to a shop to make way for new flats has been rejected…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[22440,22441,855,9163,22439,748,9444,1354,393,9453,4884,14987,269,12,3669,9440,93,16823,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-427401","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-102-5","9":"tag-102-5-fm","10":"tag-birmingham","11":"tag-black-country","12":"tag-brierley-hill","13":"tag-britain","14":"tag-dab","15":"tag-dudley","16":"tag-england","17":"tag-fm","18":"tag-great-britain","19":"tag-halesowen","20":"tag-music","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-online","23":"tag-radio","24":"tag-sport","25":"tag-stourbridge","26":"tag-uk","27":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115210790253487931","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}