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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4,678 approved · 699 refused · 306 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
16 Cotton Close Alrewas Burton Upon Trent Staffordshire DE13 7BF
Received 4 Apr 2022St Leonards Church Of England Church Main Road Wigginton Tamworth Staffordshire B79 9DN
Received 4 Apr 2022132 Main Street Alrewas Burton Upon Trent Staffordshire DE13 7ED
Received 4 Apr 2022Hanch Farm Lysways Lane Hanch Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 8HH
Received 16 Mar 2022Todds Auto Engineering Birmingham Road Shenstone Woodend Lichfield Staffordshire WS14 0LJ
Received 4 Apr 202296 Gaia Lane Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 7LS
Received 4 Apr 2022Land At Streethay Farm (Land Parcel 7) Streethay Farm Burton Road Streethay
Received 4 Apr 2022Land To The North Of Wood End Lane (Land Parcel 9) Fradley Lichfield
Received 4 Apr 20223 New Road Burntwood Staffordshire WS7 0BU
Received 4 Apr 202227 Croft Close Elford Tamworth Staffordshire B79 9BU
Received 5 Apr 2022Shereston House Holly Hill Road Shenstone Lichfield Staffordshire WS14 0JF
Received 5 Apr 2022Shereston House Holly Hill Road Shenstone Lichfield Staffordshire WS14 0JF
Received 5 Apr 2022Land To The South And West Of Blithbury Blithbury Lane Rugeley Staffordshire
Received 5 Apr 2022Pepperpot Lodge Brereton Hill Upper Longdon Rugeley Staffordshire WS15 4LB
Received 5 Apr 202267 Tamworth Road Lichfield Staffordshire WS14 9HG
Received 5 Apr 20221 Alesmore Meadow Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 8FD
Received 31 Mar 202216 Mill End Lane Alrewas Burton Upon Trent Staffordshire DE13 7BX
Received 5 Apr 2022Lamb Farm London Road Canwell Sutton Coldfield Staffordshire B75 5SD
Received 5 Apr 2022Newell Rubbermaid Halifax Avenue Fradley Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 8SS
Received 5 Apr 202227 Rosemary Hill Road Little Aston Sutton Coldfield Staffordshire B74 4HL
Received 5 Apr 202211 Roman Lane Little Aston Sutton Coldfield Staffordshire B74 3AE
Received 5 Apr 202229A Rosemary Hill Road Little Aston Sutton Coldfield Staffordshire B74 4HL
Received 5 Apr 202217A Main Street Alrewas Burton Upon Trent Staffordshire DE13 7AA
Received 6 Apr 2022Stowe House Netherstowe Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 6TJ
Received 4 Apr 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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