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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4,678 approved · 699 refused · 306 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Beech Croft Batesway Upper Longdon Rugeley Staffordshire WS15 1PX
Received 5 Apr 2023Land To South And West Of King's Bromley Lichfield Staffordshire
Received 5 Apr 2023118 Trent Valley Road Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 6EU
Received 5 Apr 2023Unit 2 Streethay Local Centre Yoxall Way Streethay Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 8FT
Received 5 Apr 2023Unit 2 Streethay Local Centre Yoxall Way Streethay Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 8FT
Received 5 Apr 2023Unit 2 Streethay Local Centre Yoxall Way Streethay Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 8FT
Received 5 Apr 2023170 Birmingham Road Shenstone Woodend Lichfield Staffordshire WS14 0NX
Received 5 Apr 2023Beechwood Lawns 7 Beechwood Croft Little Aston Sutton Coldfield Staffordshire B74 3UU
Received 6 Apr 20232 Anglesey Road Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 7NU
Received 7 Apr 2023207 Queen Street Chasetown Burntwood Staffordshire WS7 4TJ
Received 10 Apr 20235 Harwood Road Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 7PP
Received 11 Apr 202314 Birch Terrace Burntwood Staffordshire WS7 2HH
Received 11 Apr 20236 Blithbury Road Colton Rugeley Staffordshire WS15 3HW
Received 11 Apr 2023Longacre Farm Blithbury Road Blithbury Rugeley Staffordshire WS15 3JQ
Received 11 Apr 202313A Back Lane Whittington Lichfield Staffordshire WS14 9NH
Received 11 Apr 20233 Baker Street Burntwood Staffordshire WS7 4QD
Received 11 Apr 2023Brownsfield Cottage Netherstowe Lane Netherstowe Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 8EH
Received 12 Apr 2023Fern House Brereton Hill Lane Upper Longdon Rugeley Staffordshire WS15 1PY
Received 12 Apr 2023Land At 53 & 55 Scotch Orchard Lichfield Staffordshire
Received 12 Apr 2023The Brambles 19 Ironstone Road Burntwood Staffordshire WS7 1NB
Received 12 Apr 2023Unit 1 Plant Lane Business Park Phase 1 Plant Lane Burntwood Staffordshire WS7 3GN
Received 13 Apr 2023Land Adj To Ashby Road Tamworth Staffordshire B79 0BY
Received 13 Apr 20238 Hardwick Road Sutton Coldfield Staffordshire B74 3BU
Received 14 Apr 202310 Birmingham Road Shenstone Lichfield Staffordshire WS14 0JZ
Received 13 Apr 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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