Understanding planning · 13 min read
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4,678 approved · 699 refused · 306 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
78 Bridge Cross Road Burntwood Staffordshire WS7 2BZ
Received 28 Feb 2025Land At The Shrubbery Elford Tamworth Staffordshire
Received 28 Feb 2025Former Rugeley Power Station Armitage Road Armitage Rugeley Staffordshire
Received 28 Feb 2025Land Rear Of Canal Cottage Walsall Road Muckley Corner Lichfield Staffordshire WS14 0BU
Received 3 Mar 2025Bromley Hayes Garden Centre Shaw Lane Rileyhill Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 8HW
Received 3 Mar 202510 Lombard Street Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 6DR
Received 7 Feb 20252 Buxton Avenue Fazeley Tamworth Staffordshire B78 3RP
Received 28 Feb 2025Dexters Barn Drayton Lane Drayton Bassett Tamworth Staffordshire B78 3EF
Received 4 Mar 2025Sandfields Pumping Station Chesterfield Road Lichfield Staffordshire WS14 0AA
Received 4 Mar 2025252 Chase Road Burntwood Staffordshire WS7 0DY
Received 4 Mar 2025Shute Hill Farm Shute Hill Chorley Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 8BZ
Received 4 Mar 20251 Carter Close Wigginton Tamworth Staffordshire B79 8UE
Received 5 Mar 2025Long Barn Fox Lane Elmhurst Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 8HA
Received 5 Mar 20253 Jervis Park Little Aston Sutton Coldfield Staffordshire B74 3FH
Received 5 Mar 202557A Walsall Road Little Aston Sutton Coldfield Staffordshire B74 3BA
Received 5 Mar 20253 Beechfield Rise Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 6EL
Received 5 Mar 202554 Burton Old Road West Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 6EN
Received 6 Mar 2025100 Spinney Lane Burntwood Staffordshire WS7 2HB
Received 7 Mar 202517 Holm View Close Shenstone Lichfield Staffordshire WS14 0NR
Received 7 Mar 2025Muckley Corner Service Station Walsall Road Muckley Corner Lichfield Staffordshire WS14 0BH
Received 7 Mar 20254 Sandfield Close Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 6BF
Received 7 Mar 202528 Forge Lane Little Aston Sutton Coldfield Staffordshire B74 3BE
Received 10 Mar 202533 Two Trees Close Hopwas Tamworth Staffordshire B78 3BG
Received 10 Mar 202520 Berryfields Stonnall Walsall Staffordshire WS9 9EJ
Received 10 Mar 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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