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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4,678 approved · 699 refused · 306 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Ellastone Raikes Lane Lichfield Staffordshire WS14 0EJ
Received 17 Mar 2026Bleak House Farmhouse Ironstone Road Burntwood Staffordshire WS7 1YL
Received 17 Mar 2026Lakeside Business Park Lichfield Street Fazeley Tamworth Staffordshire B78 3NT
Received 17 Mar 202638 St Johns Hill Shenstone Lichfield Staffordshire WS14 0JD
Received 17 Mar 2026Fairfield House Borough Lane Longdon Rugeley Staffordshire WS15 4QN
Received 17 Mar 2026Land At Oak Meadow Farm Borough Lane Longdon Rugeley Staffordshire
Received 17 Mar 2026Poplars 47 St Matthews Road Burntwood Staffordshire WS7 9EN
Received 17 Mar 2026Swan Cottage Mill Lane Stonnall Walsall Staffordshire WS9 9HN
Received 17 Mar 2026Plas David Thorpe Lane Tamworth Staffordshire B79 0LL
Received 18 Mar 202641A Borrowcop Lane Lichfield Staffordshire WS14 9DG
Received 18 Mar 2026Warren House Veterinary Centre Lichfield Road Brownhills Walsall WS8 6LS
Received 18 Mar 2026Shenstone Business Park Lynn Lane Shenstone Lichfield Staffordshire WS14 0SB
Received 19 Mar 2026Tesco Stores Limited Church Street Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 6DZ
Received 20 Mar 202633 Uttoxeter Road Hill Ridware Rugeley Staffordshire WS15 3QR
Received 23 Mar 20262 Poplars Road Handsacre Rugeley Staffordshire WS15 4EZ
Received 23 Mar 2026112 Highfields Road Chasetown Burntwood Staffordshire WS7 4QU
Received 23 Mar 2026Springfields Day Nursery Beacon Street Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 7BJ
Received 23 Mar 2026Unit 60 Britannia Enterprise Park Britannia Way Lichfield Staffordshire WS14 9UY
Received 23 Mar 2026Pear Tree Cottage Main Road Haunton Tamworth Staffordshire B79 9HN
Received 23 Mar 202615 Manston View Wigginton Tamworth Staffordshire B79 8TH
Received 23 Mar 2026Land East Of Bonehill House Park Lane Bonehill Tamworth Staffordshire
Received 24 Mar 2026Starbucks Barracks Lane Walsall Wood Walsall Staffordshire WS9 9DL
Received 24 Mar 2026Land North East Of Watery Lane Curborough Lichfield Staffordshire
Received 18 Mar 20261 Spearhill Lichfield Staffordshire WS14 9UD
Received 23 Mar 2026Records 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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