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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4,678 approved · 699 refused · 306 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
15 Church Road Alrewas Burton Upon Trent Staffordshire DE13 7BT
Received 24 Mar 202315 Church Road Alrewas Burton Upon Trent Staffordshire DE13 7BT
Received 24 Mar 202340 Ferndale Road Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 7DJ
Received 24 Mar 2023159 Sutton Road Mile Oak Tamworth Staffordshire B78 3PF
Received 24 Mar 2023The Nags Head Rugeley Road Burntwood Staffordshire WS7 9HA
Received 24 Mar 2023Land Rear Of 8 - 16 Main Street Shenstone Lichfield Staffordshire
Received 24 Mar 2023McDonalds Restaurant Birmingham Road Wall Lichfield Staffordshire WS14 0QP
Received 24 Mar 2023Sheriffs Ride Stafford Road Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 8JA
Received 27 Mar 20238 Little Aston Lane Little Aston Sutton Coldfield Staffordshire B74 3UF
Received 24 Mar 20238 Deans Slade Drive Lichfield Staffordshire WS14 0DD
Received 24 Mar 2023Dunnimere Farm Portway Lane Harlaston Tamworth Staffordshire B79 9LA
Received 27 Mar 20234 Little Grange Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 7DX
Received 27 Mar 202312 Fox Lane Elmhurst Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 8HA
Received 28 Mar 2023Autosmart International Unit 9 Burntwood Business Park Zone 1 Attwood Road Burntwood Staffordshire WS7 3GJ
Received 28 Mar 202316 Dawes Close Armitage Rugeley Staffordshire WS15 4BE
Received 29 Mar 20234 Whitehall Beacon Street Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 7AF
Received 29 Mar 20237 Church Road Alrewas Burton Upon Trent Staffordshire DE13 7BT
Received 29 Mar 2023Tollgate Cottage Walsall Road Pipehill Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 8JT
Received 29 Mar 2023Land Adj Shenstone Moss St Johns Drive Shenstone Lichfield Staffordshire
Received 29 Mar 2023The Meadow 19 Church Street Chasetown Burntwood Staffordshire WS7 3QL
Received 29 Mar 2023Land Rear 31 St Annes Road Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 7RE
Received 30 Mar 202317 Eastridge Croft Shenstone Lichfield Staffordshire WS14 0LN
Received 30 Mar 2023Beech Croft Batesway Upper Longdon Rugeley Staffordshire WS15 1PX
Received 28 Mar 2023Mill Stone Barn Mill Lane Aldridge Walsall Staffordshire WS9 0LZ
Received 31 Mar 2023Records 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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