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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.
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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4,678 approved · 699 refused · 306 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 Salt Way Fradley Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 8UQ
Received 21 Feb 2025Spruce House Lichfield Road Hopwas Tamworth Staffordshire B78 3AN
Received 21 Feb 2025Haselour Park Haselour Lane Harlaston Tamworth Staffordshire B79 9JT
Received 24 Feb 2025Land Off Cannock Road Chase Terrace Burntwood Staffordshire WS7 3XA
Received 24 Feb 202578 Church Lane Fradley Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 8NN
Received 24 Feb 2025The Little Ripley Day Nursery 17 Burnett Road Streetly Sutton Coldfield Staffordshire B74 3EL
Received 24 Feb 202539 The Grove Little Aston Sutton Coldfield Staffordshire B74 3UD
Received 25 Feb 202533 Walsall Road Little Aston Sutton Coldfield Staffordshire B74 3BA
Received 25 Feb 2025Land To The South Of Fradley Park Streethay Lichfield Staffordshire
Received 21 Feb 2025Tufton Cottage Roman Road Little Aston Sutton Coldfield Staffordshire B74 3AR
Received 26 Feb 20257 Johnson Close Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 6AW
Received 26 Feb 2025Netherstowe House North & Netherstowe House South Netherstowe Lane Netherstowe Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 6AY
Received 26 Feb 2025Netherstowe House North & Netherstowe House South Netherstowe Lane Netherstowe Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 6AY
Received 26 Feb 2025Land Adj Bucks Head Farm Watling Street Weeford Lichfield Staffordshire
Received 25 Feb 2025Burntwood Business Park Zone 1, Unit 20 Cobbett Road Burntwood Staffordshire WS7 3GL
Received 27 Feb 202522 Flats Lane Whittington Heath Lichfield Staffordshire WS14 9QG
Received 27 Feb 2025Southwinds 17 Chase Road Burntwood Staffordshire WS7 0DS
Received 27 Feb 2025Barns Farm Roman Lane Little Aston Sutton Coldfield Staffordshire B74 3AF
Received 27 Feb 2025Aston Court Nursing Home Little Aston Hall Drive Little Aston Sutton Coldfield Staffordshire B74 3BF
Received 27 Feb 2025Lower Newlands Farm Newlands Lane Blithbury Rugeley Staffordshire WS15 3JD
Received 27 Feb 2025Land Adjacent Ash Tree Inn Rugeley Road Armitage Rugeley Staffordshire
Received 28 Feb 20255 Salisbury Close Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 7SN
Received 28 Feb 2025Beech Croft Batesway Upper Longdon Rugeley Staffordshire WS15 1PX
Received 28 Feb 202511 The Close Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 7LD
Received 28 Feb 2025Records 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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