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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4,678 approved · 699 refused · 306 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Cranfield House Church Road Alrewas Burton Upon Trent Staffordshire DE13 7BT
Received 15 Sept 202288 Richard Cooper Road Shenstone Lichfield Staffordshire WS14 0NN
Received 15 Sept 202210 Lombard Street Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 6DR
Received 15 Sept 202210 & 12 Lombard Street Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 6DR
Received 15 Sept 20224 Watling Street Weeford Lichfield Staffordshire WS14 0PL
Received 15 Sept 202223 Burntwood Town Shopping Centre Cannock Road Chase Terrace Burntwood Staffordshire WS7 1JR
Received 16 Sept 2022Nettex Pharma Watery Lane Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 7SE
Received 20 Sept 2022Knight Farm Main Road Haunton Tamworth Staffordshire B79 9HL
Received 20 Sept 2022David Lloyd Clubs Birmingham Road Wall Lichfield Staffordshire WS14 0QP
Received 20 Sept 2022The Drill Inn 33 Springle Styche Lane Burntwood Staffordshire WS7 9HD
Received 20 Sept 202273 Little Aston Lane Little Aston Sutton Coldfield Staffordshire B74 3UE
Received 21 Sept 2022Littleton House Pipe Lane Pipe Ridware Rugeley Staffordshire WS15 3QL
Received 21 Sept 20227 Summerfield Road Burntwood Staffordshire WS7 4UA
Received 21 Sept 20227 Greenwood Drive Lichfield Staffordshire WS14 9AG
Received 21 Sept 2022Brook House Cottage Church Hill Longdon Green Rugeley Staffordshire WS15 4PY
Received 21 Sept 20229 Jordan Croft Fradley Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 8PN
Received 21 Sept 2022The Old Vicarage Alrewas Road Kings Bromley Burton Upon Trent Staffordshire DE13 7HP
Received 14 Sept 20221 Furnivall Crescent Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 6DB
Received 21 Sept 2022Maple Brook Cottage Lower Lane Chorley Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 8DG
Received 21 Sept 2022Moat Bank Farm Moat Bank Lichfield Staffordshire WS14 0BA
Received 22 Sept 2022Land Adjacent Hayes Meadow Primary Spode Avenue Handsacre Rugeley Staffordshire
Received 12 Sept 2022The Nest Batesway Upper Longdon Rugeley Staffordshire WS15 1PX
Received 23 Sept 20226 Gaiafields Road Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 7LT
Received 23 Sept 20224 Gaiafields Road Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 7LT
Received 23 Sept 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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