Barn 3, The Barns, Whitestitch Lane, Great Packington, CV7 7JE Data via plota.co.uk

2026/0381/PN23 - Prior Approval - Provision of a temporary state-funded school on Approved

Proposal

Application to determine if prior approval is required for a proposed: Change of Use from commercial/business/service/hotels/etc to state-funded school Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 14 Oct 2026, 12:10

Application progress

✓

Received

13 May 2026

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Approved

9 Jul 2026

Approved on 9 Jul 2026 · Delegated · Last checked 14 Oct 2026

Documents 1

Decision & officer reports 1

PDF Decision Notice Decision Notice - Decision · 9 Jul 2026 View ↗

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Site constraints 8

Coal mining legacy area

Green belt: Birmingham

Inappropriate development needs very special circumstances.

Green belt policy allows a short list of exceptions, such as limited extensions and replacement buildings. Anything else needs very special circumstances that clearly outweigh the harm. Some green belt land can count as grey belt, where it does not strongly serve the green belt's purposes. The council decides this in its green belt assessment or on each application, so we do not mark it here.

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Article 4 direction

Borough wide. Named permitted development rights are withdrawn here.

An Article 4 direction withdraws particular permitted development rights, so work that would normally need no application needs one here. Not every council has published its directions.

Agricultural land, grade 3b

Not best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) agrees.

Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.

Habitat network: Network Expansion Zone

Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.

Coal mining legacy areaCouncil record

Recorded by the council for this site.

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Also on the record

Radon affected area, class 2; Coalfield, development low risk area; 1 listed building within 150 m of the postcode pin.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 13 October 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the Mining Remediation Authority, the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency (radon, contains BGS materials © UKRI) and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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Other new applications on this street

7 Sept 2026Pending

Whitestitch Farm Whitestitch Lane Great Packington CV7 7JE

Rebuilding of rear garden boundary wall (Retrospective)

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7 Sept 2026Pending

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Important details

Council: North Warwickshire
Application type: Prior Approval - Provision of a temporary state-funded school on
Postcode: CV7 7JE
Received: 13 May 2026
Validated: 13 May 2026
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 10 Jul 2026
Decision: Granted
Decision date: 9 Jul 2026
Decision level: Delegated
Applicant: Show
Agent: Andrew Large Surveyors Ltd

How this decision compares

Decided in 57 days from validation, 25 days faster than North Warwickshire's median of 82 for commercial premises. Approved, as 100% of commercial premises here are.

This one57d

Council82d

UK56d

30%decided within 8 weeks

100%approved

9%go to committee

Plota live figures for commercial premises decided by North Warwickshire in the last twelve months, from validation. North Warwickshire decision record →

Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 14 Oct 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Consultation: 5 Jun 2026
Comments by: 28 Jun 2026
Statutory expiry: 8 Jul 2026

Historical activity at this location

2 nearby applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2019 Withdrawn

Whitestitch Farm Whitestitch Lane Great Packington CV7 7JE

Demolition of barns and erection of one residential dwellinghouse

PAP/2019/0585 18 Mar 2020

2019 Withdrawn

Whitestitch Farm Whitestitch Lane Great Packington CV7 7JE

Demolition of barns and erection of one residential dwellinghouse

PAP/2019/0585 18 Mar 2020

North Warwickshire

Planning Authority Score

3.9/10

Below average

#199 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Change of use

North Warwickshire is slower than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #246 out of 296. The council extends the time limit on 57% of applications - one of the highest rates in England. Expect your application to take longer than the standard deadline. Householder applications are more likely to be approved here than most councils, with a 97% approval rate vs 90% nationally.

Frequently extends decision deadlines

expect longer than the statutory limit

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance

North Warwickshire decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

93%

Overall approval rate

Above avg (87%) #63 of 296

97%

Householder approved

Above avg (90%) #37 of 296

48%

Decided in 8 weeks

Below avg (63%) #246 of 296

57%

Extended time limit

Above avg (41%) #258 of 296

84%

Minor dwellings approved

63 decided (1-9 homes)

80%

Major dwellings approved

5 decided (10+ homes)

88%

Change of use approved

26 decided

368

Total decisions

24 refused in the year to March 2026