| Description | The plan indexes for houses for Birmingham dated 1876 - 1898 is in the Wolfson Centre, Floor 4, Library of Birmingham. The indexes dated 1965 - 1991 are kept in our archive stores and would need to be searched by a member of staff. Enquiries about buildings in Birmingham built after 1960 should be directed to archives.heritage@birmingham.gov.uk.
Please note, for that fell outside of the city of Birmingham when a particular house was built, you would need to check the lists of the relevant local authority area who dealt with planning control when that house was built. For example, if you were looking for a building plan of a house built on a street in present day Aston prior to 1911 would need to check the building plan lists and indexes for Aston Manor Board (Collection Ref: BCA). From 1911 Aston fell under the City of Birmingham following the extension of the city boundary that year, therefore you would need to check the relevant registers for Birmingham. Please ask a member of staff for further information.
To order a plan located in the register for a particular street please speak to a member of staff. You would need the plan number referred to in the register preceded by Birmingham Building Plan [BBP], for example BBP 1416, BBP 12546/80 etc.
Not all of the plans listed in the indexes may actually survive in our collections, particularly for later periods when the Planning Department tended to retain plans large scale housing developments or commercial or public building plans. Some early building plans may be fragile and unfit to serve. |