Understanding planning · 13 min read
Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
Application overview
Single storey extension to outbuilding to create annexe
Proposal details
- Reference
- CH/26/138
- Alternative references
- PP-14890977
- Ward
- Etching HIll & the Heath
- Parish
- Brindley Heath CP
- Agent
- Stephen Bonehill
- UPRN
- 100031645414
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| Document | Published | Action |
|---|---|---|
| Refused 18.8.26 - Parking Provision - DetailsPREFDWG | 28 Apr 2026 | View |
| Refused 18.8.26 - Photographs and photomontagesPREFDWG | 28 Apr 2026 | View |
| Refused 18.8.26 - Photographs and photomontagesPREFDWG | 28 Apr 2026 | View |
| Refused 18.8.26 - Photographs and photomontagesPREFDWG | 28 Apr 2026 | View |
| Refused 18.8.26 - Photographs and photomontagesPREFDWG | 28 Apr 2026 | View |
| Refused 18.8.26 - Proposed Block PlanPREFDWG | 28 Apr 2026 | View |
| Refused 18.8.26 - Location Plan ProposedPREFDWG | 28 Apr 2026 | View |
| Refused 18.8.26 - Proposed PlansPREFDWG | 28 Apr 2026 | View |
| Application Form - Without Personal DataPAPPFRM | 28 Apr 2026 | View |
| Refused 18.8.26 - Existing PlansPREFDWG | 18 May 2026 | View |
| Refused 18.8.26 - Existing ElevationsPREFDWG | 18 May 2026 | View |
| Refused 18.8.26 - Location PlanPREFDWG | 18 May 2026 | View |
| Brindley Heath PC commentsPCONSULT | 1 Jul 2026 | View |
| Officer ReportPOFFREP | 18 Aug 2026 | View |
| Decision NoticePDECNOT | 18 Aug 2026 | View |
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Application timeline
Council milestones and published deadlines. A deadline passing does not confirm a decision.
Publicity end date
Past published deadlineA published target or deadline. It does not confirm an outcome.
Council sourceDecision due date
Past published deadlineA published target or deadline. It does not confirm an outcome.
Council source
Decision & conditions
Decision NoticePlanning conditions
- In accordance with Paragraph 38 of the National Planning Policy Framework, the Local Planning Authority has worked with the applicant in a positive and proactive manner to approve the proposed development. However, in this instance the proposal fails to accord with the Local Plan and the National Planning Policy Framework.
- 1. The proposed development, by reason of its cumulative size, scale, bulk and massing, would result in a disproportionate addition over and above the size of the original building. The proposal would materially increase the amount of built form on the site and would adversely affect the openness of the Green Belt. The development therefore constitutes inappropriate development within the Green Belt. No very special circumstances have been demonstrated which clearly outweigh this harm and the substantial weight that must be given to Green Belt harm. The proposal is therefore contrary to Paragraphs 142 and 154(c) of the National Planning Policy Framework and Policy SO7.6 of the Cannock Chase Local Plan.
- 2. The proposed building, by virtue of its size, design, layout, physical separation from the host dwelling and provision of all facilities necessary for independent day-to-day living, would not function as accommodation ancillary to the host dwelling and would instead amount to a separate self-contained unit of residential accommodation. The proposal would therefore constitute the creation of a new dwellinghouse within the Green Belt which represents inappropriate development for which no very special circumstances have been demonstrated and is contrary to Paragraphs 142 and 154 of the National Planning Policy Framework and Policy SO7.6 of the Cannock Chase Local Plan.
