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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596 approved · 15 refused · 33 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Wilnecote Quarry, Hedging Lane, Wilnecote, Tamworth
Received Not publishedPoplars Landfill Site, Lichfield Road, CANNOCK, WS11 8NQ
Received 12 Jun 2024Five Ways Primary School, Langholm Drive, Heath Hayes, Cannock, WS12 2EZ
Received 19 Jun 2024NEWBOLD QUARRY, LICHFIELD ROAD, BARTON UNDER NEEDWOOD, DE13 8EG.
Received 25 Mar 2025Grove Farm, Stone Road, Yarlet, Stafford
Received Not publishedShire Oak Quarry, Chester Road, Shire Oak, Walsall Wood, WS9 9DF
Received 9 Aug 2021Land north of West Avenue Kidsgrove
Received Not publishedKeele Quarry, Madeley Heath, Newcastle under Lyme
Received 24 Feb 2021GREENER COMPOSTING, Watling Street, LICHFIELD, WS14 0GP
Received 21 Aug 2023RESIDENTIAL UNIT, 114 DOUGLAS ROAD, NEWCASTLE UNDER LYME, ST5 9BJ
Received 11 Feb 2025Shire Oak Quarry, Chester Road, Shire Oak, Walsall, Staffordshire, WS9 9DF
Received 3 Jul 2025Land at Former St Gobain Works, Doxey Road, Stafford
Received 12 May 2026Loggerheads Sewage Treatment Works, Market Drayton Road, Loggerheads, TF9 4BS
Received 12 Feb 2024Redstone Quarry, Quarry Bank, Hollington, Stoke on Trent
Received 15 Jul 2025Land On South West Side Of Levedale Road, Levedale, Staffordshire
Received 28 Mar 2023Blythe View Farm, Grindley Lane, Grindley
Received Not publishedWillshee's Skip Hire, Wharf Road, Burton on Trent
Received Not publishedAudley Sewage Treatment Works, Alsager Road, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Received 27 Sept 2022Yoxall Town Hill Sewage Pumping Station Access
Received Not publishedClifton Road, Clifton Campville, B79 0BD
Received 7 Jul 2025Meece Landfill, Cold Meece, ST15 0QN.
Received 11 Sept 2024Plot D Howle Close, Rowhurst Industrial Estate, Watermills Road, Newcastle under Lyme
Received Not publishedUttoxeter Quarry, Spath, Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, ST14 5AP
Received 26 Aug 2021King Edward VI School, Upper St. John Street, Lichfield
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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