We work with a wide range of developers, landowners, businesses and private individuals with property interests in the Sandwell area. We are active in processing Sandwell Planning Applications, which include change of use, self-build, commercial, residential and leisure schemes, conservation areas, green and grey belt.
Sandwell is the name of borough council covering the densely populated area of the East Midlands which includes the towns of Oldbury, Rowley Regis, Smethwick, Tipton, Wednesbury and West Bromwich, where the borough’s strategic town centre in located. It’s named after Sandwell Priory, an ancient Benedictine monastery founded in the 12th century. The borough extends to 33 square miles and has an average population of just over 309,000.
Local attractions includes West Bromwich Albion football club, Wednesbury Museum and Art Gallery and West Bromwich Manor House which was constructed in 1270. Other notable buildings include the 17th century Bishop Asbury Cottage, Soho Foundry, a factory created in 1795 by Matthew Boulton and James Watt and their sons, for the manufacture of steam engine sand weighing machines.
Sandwell Metrolpitan Borough Council was created in 1974 with the amalgamation of the county boroughs of Warley and West Bromwich, which were abolished. The council sits at Sandwell Council House, Freeth Street, Oldbury, B69 3DB. This is where all Sandwell planning applications, permission and appeals are decided.
Plande works right across the borough of Sandwell from Wednesbury and Friar Park in the North to Cradley Heath in the south and from Rowley Regis across to Smethwick.