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PL/2026/0000801/PAAF - PAAF Application to determine if prior approval is required for a proposed Refused

Proposal

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View original council record ↗Last checked 1 Oct 2026, 01:42

Application progress

✓

Received

12 May 2026

✗

Refused

9 Jun 2026

Appeal

Not lodged

Refused on 9 Jun 2026 · Delegated decision · Last checked 1 Oct 2026

Documents 6

Site constraints 7

1 listed building within 150 m of the postcode pin

Nearest: Pickford Grange Farmhouse, Grade II, the postcode pin is inside its outline

The site itself is not listed. Listed building consent is needed for work that affects the special interest of a listed building, inside or out, on top of planning permission. Setting can be a consideration for buildings nearby; there is no fixed radius.

Historic England ↗

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.

Read the government guidance ↗

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.

Air quality management area: Coventry City-Wide AQMA

The council has declared the area as failing an air quality objective.

Schemes that add traffic, parking or combustion plant are assessed against the area's action plan and may need an air quality assessment.

Council record ↗

Public footpath about 21 m away

Matters where it crosses or adjoins the site: obstructing a path without a diversion order is an offence, and work cannot start until the order is confirmed.

Compiled from highway authority data, not the legal definitive map. A few authorities have not published, so no path shown is not proof there is none.

Also on the record

Radon affected area, class 2; Coalfield, development low risk area.

Not affected

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

Checked on 6 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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Important details

Council: Coventry
Application type: PAAF Application to determine if prior approval is required for a proposed
Postcode: CV5 9AR
Received: 12 May 2026
Validated: 12 May 2026
Ward: Woodlands
Parish: Allesley Parish Council
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 9 Jun 2026
Decision: Refused
Decision date: 9 Jun 2026
Decision level: Delegated decision
Applicant: Show
Agent: Bowie Lockwood Structures

How this decision compares

Decided in 28 days from validation, 8 days faster than Coventry's median of 36 for prior approvals. Refused, as 41% of prior approvals here are.

This one28d

Council36d

UK33d

99%decided within 8 weeks

59%approved

128decided in the last year

Plota live figures for prior approvals decided by Coventry in the last twelve months, from validation. Coventry decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Statutory expiry: 9 Jun 2026

Coventry

Planning Authority Score

7.7/10

Good

#35 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Householder decisions

Coventry is one of the fastest councils in England for householder decisions, ranking #13 out of 296. Only 13% of applications have the time limit extended, well below the 41% national average - the council usually decides on time. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (90%) than the national average (90%).

Among the fastest councils in England

for householder decisions

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

Coventry decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

84%

Overall approval rate

Below avg (87%) #219 of 296

90%

Householder approved

Above avg (90%) #189 of 296

91%

Decided in 8 weeks

Above avg (63%) #13 of 296

13%

Extended time limit

Below avg (41%) #7 of 296

72%

Minor dwellings approved

114 decided (1-9 homes)

89%

Major dwellings approved

28 decided (10+ homes)

74%

Change of use approved

100 decided

1,131

Total decisions

186 refused in the year to March 2026

Pickford Grange Farm Land And Buildings Pickford Grange Lane, Coventry Data via plota.co.uk

Proposal

Application progress

Documents 6

Decision & officer reports 2

Statements & assessments 1

Plans & drawings 2

Application forms 1

Site constraints 7

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