Plan to convert home into private tuition centre rejected by the council.

Sandwell Council has turned down a planning application by BMH Tutors to turn a Victorian home in St Mary’s Road, Bearwood, into a ‘private tuition academy’ for up to 20 children studying for their GCSEs and A-Levels.

The council’s planners said the proposed conversion did not include enough parking spaces and would add to existing traffic problems in Bearwood.