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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4,678 approved · 699 refused · 306 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
5 Stour Close Burntwood Staffordshire WS7 9JY
Received 28 Aug 2023Unit 4E And 4F Burntwood Business Park Zone 2 Ring Road Burntwood Staffordshire WS7 3JQ
Received 29 Aug 2023Sandcroft Fisherwick Road Fisherwick Lichfield Staffordshire WS14 9JN
Received 29 Aug 2023163 Chase Road Burntwood Staffordshire WS7 0EB
Received 29 Aug 2023Land Adjacent Lichfield District Council Frog Lane Lichfield Staffordshire
Received 30 Aug 2023Former Rugeley Power Station Armitage Road Armitage Rugeley Staffordshire WS15 1PR
Received 30 Aug 2023Burntwood Business Park Zone 1, Unit 9 Attwood Road Burntwood Staffordshire WS7 3GJ
Received 31 Aug 202367 Rosemary Hill Road Little Aston Sutton Coldfield Staffordshire B74 4HH
Received 31 Aug 202311 Chestnut Lane Clifton Campville Tamworth Staffordshire B79 0BW
Received 1 Sept 2023Buildings Adjacent Rose Cottage Whitacre Lane Stonnall Lichfield Staffordshire WS14 0BZ
Received 1 Sept 2023Keepers Cottage Brockhurst Lane Canwell Sutton Coldfield Staffordshire B75 5SN
Received 1 Sept 2023Rear Garden Of 17 Hardwick Road Sutton Coldfield Staffordshire B74 3BY
Received 1 Sept 2023Agricultural Building Land Off Eastern Avenue Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 7SQ
Received 1 Sept 202334-36 Market Street Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 6LH
Received 1 Sept 202312-14 The Crown Tamworth Street Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 6JJ
Received 1 Sept 2023142 High Street Chasetown Burntwood WS7 3XG
Received 4 Sept 2023139 Birmingham Road Lichfield Staffordshire WS14 9BJ
Received 4 Sept 2023Lodge Farm Stockings Lane Longdon Rugeley Staffordshire WS15 1QF
Received 4 Sept 2023Lichfield South Business Park Birmingham Road Wall Lichfield Staffordshire
Received 5 Sept 202398 Spinney Lane Burntwood Staffordshire WS7 2HB
Received 6 Sept 2023Daisy Cottage Farewell Hall Mews Farewell Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 8ED
Received 6 Sept 202323 Walnut Walk Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 8FA
Received 6 Sept 2023Lichfield South Birmingham Road Wall Lichfield Staffordshire WS14 0QP
Received 6 Sept 202315 Saddlers Close Lichfield Staffordshire WS14 9ZW
Received 7 Sept 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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