Four boarded up Grade II listed properties on Moseley Road

102 Moseley Rd

When I posted West Midlands Police’s statement about the recent fire in a property on Moseley Road, in which two people sadly died, both Barnard and Yasmin commented that the old building, along with a few houses next to it, had been empty for a number of years.

I took a walk over there.  The house that caught fire is next to Al Kawthar Academy at 110-114 Moseley Road and just opposite Highgate Park. The house numbers are kind of erratic, but it seems to be part of 106/Flynn House, 102 and 98, all of which are empty and boarded up.  According to the Land Registry, these Grade II  listed properties are owned by Concept Development Solutions, who Anna Blackaby tells me went bust in 2009.  On a post just outside the property is an application for planning permission:

Application to replace an extant planning permission 2007/00830/PA in order to extend the time limit for implementation.

This will effectively leave another three years to complete this development:

Refurbishment of 3 listed buildings and the redevelopment of the rear properties to form a 50 bed care home (C2 use) and 43 retirement apartments (C3 use), provision of basement level car park and associated works.

98 Moseley Rd

This application, which apparently had no objections, went to a Birmingham City Council committee meeting on 22nd July and a decision should be reached by 6th August.

Rubbish outside 98 Moseley Rd

All the buildings are boarded up with sitex and are in a pretty sorry state – especially no. 98, which has a front drive covered in rubbish and empty bottles and a letter about a posession claim by Concept Development Solutions against ‘Persons Unknown’ on the front door.

Letter on door of 98 Moseley Rd

Next door to 98 is no. 94, which is owned by Award Developments Ltd of Sparkhill and is boarded up by plywood. Getting into it looks like it could be pretty easy.

94 Moseley Rd

To the left of this is no. 90 which, thankfully, does seem to be showing signs of life.

90 Moseley Rd

So as things stand, it looks like this row of four Grade II listed properties on Moseley Road, which have been out of action for quite some time, may stay that way for a while longer. I’ve started a query on Help Me Investigate about this, to try and get some advice on finding out when development might start on the buildings. I’ve also emailed local councillors Tahir Ali, Chauhdry Rashid and Yvonne Mosquito and Concept Development Solutions’ administrators BDO Stoy Hayward about the issue.