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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.
England · Local authority
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Lichfield District Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
4,678 approved · 699 refused · 306 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 19 May 2017 to 29 Sept 2026. Most recent record check: 2 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Land Off Blithbury Road Blithbury Rugeley Staffordshire
Received 19 Aug 20212 Ryecroft Drive Burntwood Staffordshire WS7 2JA
Received 19 Aug 202176 Park Road Alrewas Burton Upon Trent Staffordshire DE13 7AJ
Received 19 Aug 20217 The Cricketers Alrewas Burton Upon Trent Staffordshire DE13 7DJ
Received 19 Aug 2021Wrekin Products Limited Britannia Business Park Europa Way Lichfield Staffordshire WS14 9TZ
Received 19 Aug 202116 Church Street Whittington Lichfield Staffordshire WS14 9JX
Received 20 Aug 2021The Woodlands Drayton Lane Drayton Bassett Tamworth Staffordshire B78 3TS
Received 19 Aug 2021Central Garage Ltd 19 Queen Street Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 6QD
Received 20 Aug 2021Central Garage Ltd 19 Queen Street Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 6QD
Received 20 Aug 202167 Beacon Street Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 7AS
Received 20 Aug 202110 Union Street Burntwood Staffordshire WS7 3XX
Received 23 Aug 2021Pine Tree Cottage Camp Road Sutton Coldfield Staffordshire B75 5QX
Received 23 Aug 2021151 Lower Lodge Residential Mobile Home Park Rugeley Road Armitage Rugeley Staffordshire WS15 4BF
Received 23 Aug 2021S Lester Packing Materials Limited Unit 15 Mount Road Burntwood Staffordshire WS7 0AJ
Received 23 Aug 20212 Byron Avenue Lichfield Staffordshire WS14 9BX
Received 23 Aug 2021157 Curborough Road Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 7PW
Received 24 Aug 2021217 Brownhills Road Norton Canes Cannock Staffordshire WS11 9SN
Received 24 Aug 2021Greenways Colton Road Colton Rugeley Staffordshire WS15 3HB
Received 24 Aug 20219 Caterbanck Way Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 6LR
Received 25 Aug 202110 Squirrel Walk Little Aston Sutton Coldfield Staffordshire B74 3AU
Received 25 Aug 2021156 Main Street Alrewas Burton Upon Trent Staffordshire DE13 7ED
Received 25 Aug 2021Aston Wood Golf Club Limited Aston Wood Golf Club Blake Street Little Aston Sutton Coldfield Staffordshire B74 4EU
Received 24 Aug 2021The Nook Lower Way Upper Longdon Rugeley Staffordshire WS15 1QG
Received 25 Aug 2021117 Alrewas Road Kings Bromley Burton Upon Trent Staffordshire DE13 7HP
Received 25 Aug 2021Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Lichfield District Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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