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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4,678 approved · 699 refused · 306 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
52 Park Lane Bonehill Tamworth Staffordshire B78 3HZ
Received 25 Apr 2022Land Adj Hollywell House Lower Lane Chorley Lichfield Staffordshire
Received 25 Apr 202250 Spinney Lane Burntwood Staffordshire WS7 2HA
Received 25 Apr 202224 Warren Close Lichfield Staffordshire WS14 9XN
Received 25 Apr 202220 The Parchments Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 7NA
Received 25 Apr 2022Elford Lowe Farm Elford Road Elford Tamworth Staffordshire B79 9BJ
Received 25 Apr 2022New Farm Produce Ltd New Farm Park Lane Elmhurst Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 8EX
Received 26 Apr 202285 Gaia Lane Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 7LS
Received 26 Apr 20229 Wilkinson Close Burntwood Staffordshire WS7 9LN
Received 26 Apr 2022Land North Of Sycamore Road Burntwood Staffordshire
Received 26 Apr 202222 St Michael Road Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 6SL
Received 26 Apr 2022Dunroamin Hungry Lane Weeford Lichfield Staffordshire WS14 0PN
Received 27 Apr 20221 Paskin Close Fradley Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 8NZ
Received 27 Apr 2022242 Main Street Stonnall Walsall Staffordshire WS9 9EE
Received 27 Apr 202227 Sister Dora Avenue Burntwood Staffordshire WS7 9QD
Received 27 Apr 2022130 Main Street Alrewas Burton Upon Trent Staffordshire DE13 7ED
Received 27 Apr 202217 Wyndham Wood Close Fradley Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 8UZ
Received 28 Apr 20228 Stonehouse Drive Little Aston Sutton Coldfield Staffordshire B74 3AL
Received 28 Apr 2022Snowberry House 44A Burntwood Road Hammerwich Burntwood Staffordshire WS7 0JW
Received 28 Apr 2022Bonehill House Park Lane Bonehill Tamworth Staffordshire B78 3HY
Received 29 Apr 202219 Woodfields Drive Lichfield Staffordshire WS14 9HH
Received 29 Apr 202243 The Friary Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 6QH
Received 29 Apr 2022156 Birmingham Road Lichfield Staffordshire WS14 9BW
Received 3 May 20223 Jackson Road Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 7PR
Received 3 May 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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