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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 · County council
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Staffordshire County Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
596 approved · 15 refused · 33 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 5 May 2004 to 25 Sept 2026. Most recent record check: 4 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Land off Hollywall Lane and Chatterley Road, Sandyford, Stoke-on-Trent
Received Not publishedMayfield Sewage Treatment Works, Church Lane, Mayfield, Staffordshire, DE6 2JS
Received 19 Dec 2025Sir Graham Balfour High School, Stone Road, Stafford
Received 18 Mar 2021Booth Meadow Farm, Booth Lane, The Blythe, Staffordshire
Received Not publishedBurntwood Sewage Treatment Works, Peter's Lane, Burntwood
Received 28 Jul 2023Poplars Landfill Site, Lichfield Road, Cannock, WS11 8NQ
Received 17 Oct 2023Lichfield Southern Bypass (Final Phase) on land between Birmingham Road and London Road, Lichfield
Received Not publishedNewbold Quarry, Lichfield Road, Barton Under Needwood, DE13 8EG
Received 4 Nov 2020Stafford Western Access Road on land between A34 Foregate Street and Martin Drive, Castlefields, Stafford
Received Not published119 Saredon Road Cheslyn Hay
Received Not publishedOrchard Farm, Churchill Road, Cheadle, Staffordshire, ST10 1DJ
Received 16 Mar 2023Land At Weeford Farm Park, London Road, Canwell, Sutton Coldfield
Received Not publishedSaredon Hill Quarry, Saredon Road, LITTLE SAREDON, WV10 7LJ
Received 3 Mar 2026Tamworth Sewage Treatment Works, Coton Lane, Tamworth, B79 8NN
Received 17 Mar 2025Walleys Quarry Landfill, Cemetery Road, Newcastle under Lyme, ST5 6PJ
Received 7 Feb 2023Poplars Waste Disposal Site, Lichfield Road, CANNOCK, WS11 8NQ
Received 21 Dec 2021Meece Landfill Site, Meece, Nr Stone
Received Not publishedThe Lodge, Station Road, Onneley
Received Not publishedHawthorn House, Hawthorn Close, Lichfield, WS13 6EN
Received 19 Sept 2023West Midlands Interchange Watling Street/Wolverhampton Road Gailey
Received 11 Oct 2024Walleys Quarry Landfill Site, Newcastle under Lyme
Received 2 Oct 2020Newbold Quarry
Received 10 May 2021Campions Wood Quarry, Wolverhampton Road, Cheslyn Hay, WV10 7LY
Received 24 May 2022Land at Doddlespool, Newcastle Road, Balterley
Received Not publishedRecords 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 Staffordshire County 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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