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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4,678 approved · 699 refused · 306 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
42 Uttoxeter Road Handsacre Rugeley Staffordshire WS15 4DN
Received 14 Sept 202688B Springhill Road Burntwood Staffordshire WS7 4UJ
Received 14 Sept 202668 Sainte Foy Avenue Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 6PA
Received 14 Sept 2026Greenwoods Cottage Lynn Lane Lynn Lichfield Staffordshire WS14 0ER
Received 14 Sept 2026Flat Above Whittington Heath Golf Club Common Lane Whittington Heath Lichfield Staffordshire WS14 9GX
Received 14 Sept 2026Unit B2 Multipark Burntwood Cannel Road Burntwood Staffordshire WS7 3FU
Received 14 Sept 202653 Walsall Road Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 8AD
Received 14 Sept 2026Osokosy 16 Rugeley Road Burntwood Staffordshire WS7 9BA
Received 14 Sept 2026Former Rugeley Power Station Armitage Road Armitage Rugeley Staffordshire WS15 1PR
Received 18 Sept 2026The Granary 7 The Hollies Coulter Lane Burntwood Staffordshire WS7 9EY
Received 18 Sept 2026Bank House Farm Godwins Lane Blithbury Rugeley Staffordshire WS15 3JE
Received 11 Sept 20266 Friary Gardens Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 6QU
Received 22 Sept 202621 Chatterton Avenue Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 8EF
Received 22 Sept 20267 Nether Beacon Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 7AT
Received 23 Sept 202613 Park Lane Bonehill Tamworth Staffordshire B78 3HY
Received 23 Sept 202620 Bagnall Way Hawksyard Rugeley Staffordshire WS15 1SF
Received 24 Sept 202619 The Friary Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 6QG
Received 24 Sept 2026Land At Farewell Lane Burntwood Staffordshire
Received 21 Sept 2026Land North Of Gillway Lane Tamworth Staffordshire
Received 22 Sept 2026Lichfield Rugby Club Tamworth Road Lichfield Staffordshire WS14 9JE
Received 24 Sept 202618 Newick Avenue Little Aston Sutton Coldfield Staffordshire B74 3DA
Received 24 Sept 202616-18 Conduit Street Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 6JR
Received 25 Sept 202616-18 Conduit Street Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 6JR
Received 25 Sept 202615 Chestnut Drive Shenstone Lichfield Staffordshire WS14 0JH
Received 25 Sept 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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