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SMD/2026/0254 - Full - MINOR Refused

Proposal

Change of use from 6 bedroomed detached dwelling (C3) to children's care home for up to 6 children with small scale in-house educational use for the children. Additional and replacement windows. Conversion and extension of existing garage for education facility and additional 2 parking spaces Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 10 Sept 2026, 10:33

Application progress

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Received

21 May 2026

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Validated

4 Jun 2026

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Refused

30 Jul 2026

Appeal

Not lodged

Refused on 30 Jul 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 10 Sept 2026

Documents

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Site constraints 5

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), which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 4. The predicted grade is Defra's current estimate; only a site survey settles it.

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 Enhancement Zone 1

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

Also on the record

Radon affected area, class 2; Coalfield, development low risk area; Green belt about 5 m away: Stoke-on-Trent.

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: Staffordshire Moorlands
Application type: Full - MINOR
Postcode: ST9 9LP
Received: 21 May 2026
Validated: 4 Jun 2026
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 30 Jul 2026
Decision: Planning Permission - Refused
Decision date: 30 Jul 2026
Decision level: Delegated Decision
Applicant: Show
Agent: MTP Town Planning Ltd

How this decision compares

Decided in 56 days from validation, 7 days faster than Staffordshire Moorlands's median of 63 for extensions. Refused, as 18% of extensions here are.

This one56d

Council63d

UK55d

42%decided within 8 weeks

82%approved

134decided in the last year

Plota live figures for extensions decided by Staffordshire Moorlands in the last twelve months, from validation. Staffordshire Moorlands decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Consultation: 5 Jun 2026
Comments by: 13 Jul 2026

Staffordshire Moorlands

Planning Authority Score

0.4/10

Poor

#296 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Change of use

Staffordshire Moorlands is one of the slowest councils in England for householder decisions, ranking #277 out of 296. The council extends the time limit on 66% of applications - one of the highest rates in England. Expect your application to take longer than the standard deadline. Staffordshire Moorlands is also one of the strictest councils - it refuses more householder applications than almost any other, with only 76% approved vs 90% nationally.

Among the slowest councils in England

for householder decisions

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Staffordshire Moorlands decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

76%

Overall approval rate

Below avg (87%) #283 of 296

76%

Householder approved

Below avg (90%) #292 of 296

36%

Decided in 8 weeks

Below avg (63%) #277 of 296

66%

Extended time limit

Above avg (41%) #280 of 296

59%

Minor dwellings approved

41 decided (1-9 homes)

100%

Major dwellings approved

3 decided (10+ homes)

75%

Change of use approved

36 decided

396

Total decisions

94 refused in the year to March 2026