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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4,678 approved · 699 refused · 306 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
12 Cheshire Close Burntwood Staffordshire WS7 9QX
Received 14 Feb 2022Woodfield Close Lichfield Street Fazeley Tamworth Staffordshire B78 3QE
Received 14 Feb 2022325 Lichfield Road Burntwood Staffordshire WS7 0HY
Received 14 Feb 2022Building B Sheepwash Farm Fisherwick Road Fisherwick Lichfield Staffordshire WS14 9JN
Received 14 Feb 2022Green Lane Farm Green Lane Burntwood Staffordshire WS7 9HB
Received 7 Feb 2022Priors Little Aston Park Road Sutton Coldfield Staffordshire B74 3BZ
Received 15 Feb 202241 London Road Lichfield Staffordshire WS14 9EP
Received 15 Feb 20221 Seward Close Lichfield Staffordshire WS14 9DL
Received 15 Feb 2022Old Rectory Church Lane Mavesyn Ridware Rugeley Staffordshire WS15 3QE
Received 15 Feb 2022Old Rectory Church Lane Mavesyn Ridware Rugeley Staffordshire WS15 3QE
Received 15 Feb 2022Crawley View Crawley Lane Kings Bromley Burton Upon Trent Staffordshire DE13 7JF
Received 15 Feb 202276 Birmingham Road Shenstone Lichfield Staffordshire WS14 0JU
Received 15 Feb 2022Church View Church Road Alrewas Burton Upon Trent Staffordshire DE13 7BT
Received 15 Feb 2022Fletchers Cottage 134 Main Street Alrewas Burton Upon Trent Staffordshire DE13 7ED
Received 15 Feb 20226 Lewis Road Handsacre Rugeley Staffordshire WS15 4FF
Received 15 Feb 20221 Shaftsbury Drive Burntwood Staffordshire WS7 9QP
Received 15 Feb 202212 Charnwood Close Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 6BU
Received 15 Feb 2022Building A Sheepwash Farm Fisherwick Road Fisherwick Lichfield Staffordshire WS14 9JN
Received 15 Feb 20221 Fox Hollow Drive Mile Oak Tamworth Staffordshire B78 3LX
Received 16 Feb 202231 Linden Avenue Burntwood Staffordshire WS7 2AX
Received 17 Feb 202246 Borrowcop Lane Lichfield Staffordshire WS14 9DG
Received 17 Feb 202249 Doctors Lane Shenstone Lichfield Staffordshire WS14 0NT
Received 17 Feb 2022Hollybank Walsall Road Pipehill Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 8JW
Received 17 Feb 2022100 Spinney Lane Burntwood Staffordshire WS7 2HB
Received 17 Feb 2022Records 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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